A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 156
armature cores or armature wires, arelaminated. (See Core, Lamination of.) These local currents are perhaps preferablycalled Foucault currents when they take placein magnetic cores, pole pieces or armaturecores, and eddy currents when they occur in thearmature wire or conductor. When the… … Fig. 18 J. Foucault Currents in Pole Pieces. strength of the field magnets, or of the arma-ture, they will be of greatest intensity when thechanges in the magnetic strength are the greatestand most sudden. These changes are most marked, and conse-quently the Foucault currents are strongest at…
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