located at each revolution, the appearance to the eye will be that regular intervals represent the segments, as in Fig. 3. of a large flickering spark. After running the machine In this last figure let the gap, at a, represent a break for a few seconds in this way, if we examine the com- in the… … will be the flickering spark at the commutator. A broken wire in the armature of a multipolar gen- erator may not preyent the generation of current. If tribution of current. In Fig. 2 we see that the current the coils are connected with the commutator in series, entering through the lower brush…
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