Talk:Electric Motors And Generators/AC Motors and Generators

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This entire subject is not yet organized properly, or at least based on the dominant and most common applications of electrical power use.

DC power has become non-existent in the area of power distribution, and only an extremely small and specialized fraction of power generation andp transmission. In the early 21st century DC power is used at the load level (of power systems), within the appliances themselves, and is derived electronically by the use of solid state devices and circuitry.

I see no mention yet of polyphase AC.

At this point AC and DC motors are barely (yet) correctly defined.

As a person with no experience using CAD, no CAD software, and extremely limited drafting skills, I am presently very limited as far as building proper educational or reference materials for electrical motors and generators. If pics of hand drawn sketches can be included, my limitations are dramatically reduced. Are there willing contributors to this effort to convert such pics into useful graphics?

Is this faction of wiki intending to move materials from older books which have passed into the public domain into the wiki format, and accepting the use of segments of such written and graphic materials without reference to the original sources?


 * Hand drawn graphics are absolutely acceptable. If they are simple graphics, I may be able to render them satisfactorily, though it may take me some time.
 * I'm afraid I'm partly to blame for the inclusion of DC motors in this section. My involvement with this wikibook was mainly to split it so it was in line with contemporary wikibooks formats (Something I've done for a number of books here), and the prior authors had DC motors under the AC motor heading, I kept it that way, assuming perhaps there was a good reason I did not grasp. Since there isn't I'll move those to a separate page soon.
 * "DC power has become non-existent in the area of power distribution, and only an extremely small and specialized fraction of power generation andp transmission. In the early 21st century DC power is used at the load level (of power systems), within the appliances themselves, and is derived electronically by the use of solid state devices and circuitry."
 * I think I might be missing something here. This book is on Electric Motors And Generators, and DC motors are a subcategory of that. Is there somewhere in this book that discusses power transmission? If so you're right that that probably doesn't belong in this wikibook.
 * Hope this helps! --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 12:12, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry to be so slow to respond. My comments regarding DC transmission/distribution were primarily to explain or establish the necessity of "drives" and similar systems for interfacing DC motors and generators to the utility grid in any way, at this point in time. 2601:603:1580:A6F0:3DC9:A006:DE0:4074 (discuss) 04:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)