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Old 10-27-13, 08:07 AM   #144
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See:
Electric generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Read about Alternator & Excitation.

It seems like you need two independent windings to make power without using permanent magnets.




A DC motor is also a DC generator and would be the best way to go..
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