Bacon, John Baptiste Ford · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 94
nient means of determining this rela-tive speed is to divide the number of cylindersby four. The distributor arm turns at cam-shaft speed owing to the fact that each cylin-der requires one spark in two revolutions of theengine. The Dixie magneto, which is a good exampleof the inductor type, has… … N N BRONZE DIAGRAM TO ILLUSTRATE THE PRINCIPLE OF REVOLVINGPOLES ON THE DIXIE MAGNETO IGNITION carrying two shoes or pole extensions separatedby a bronze block is placed in line with the twopoles of the magnets. This shaft having nowindings upon it is not called an armature,but is known as a rotor.…
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