Definition of Field coil

1. Noun. The electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine.

Exact synonyms: Field Winding
Generic synonyms: Coil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Coil

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Literary usage of Field coil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electrical Machinery: A Practical Study Course on Installation, Operation by Fred Anzley Annett (1921)
"Field-Coil Connections and Armature Rotation.—A fixed relation exists ... It has already been shown that the field-coil connections to the armature in Fig. ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"Grounded field coil, 403, 406. Short-circuited field coil, 403, 406. Commutator troubles, 404, 406. Wiring system, grounded and shorted, 403, 406. 418. ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"FIELD-COIL DEFECTS 105. Fields, like armatures, are subject to defects of ... If the machine is an isolated dynamo, a break in the field coil can do no ..."

4. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"Find the resistance of the field coil circuit. Fio. 440. 2. How does temperature affect this resistance? Show the result experimentally by measuring the ..."

5. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"Find the resistance of the field coil circuit. FiG. 440. 2. How does temperature affect this resistance? Show the result experimentally by measuring the ..."

6. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"field coil Test by Transformer. During this test the field coil becomes the ... The field coil is placed on the laminated iron core and the yoke placed ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"The size of this field coil, necessitated by the size of the wattmeter box, gives it a large reactance, and as this has added to it the equal ..."

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