Dynamos and motors; a text book for colleges and technical schools (1911)
Franklin, William S. (William Suddards), 1863-1930, Esty, William, 1868-1928 · New York The Macmillan company · leaf 75
nator are shown in Fig. 49. The series field winding CC isconnected into the main alternating-current circuit through therectifier ^ which is essentially a reversing switch, and the cur-rent in CC flows always in one direction, although the currentin the main circuit is an alternating current.… … Fig. 50. This is equivalent in its effect to the insertion of the coil CCdirectly into the main circuit as shown in Fig. 49. Figure 51 shows the actual arrangement of the compositealternator. The small transformer, the collecting rings jt, andthe rectifier ^ are all mounted together on the armature…
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