A powder dynamometer is similar to an eddy current dynamometer, but a fine magnetic powder is placed in the air gap between the rotor and the coil.
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As each coil is energized in turn, the rotor aligns itself with the magnetic field produced by the energized field winding.
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Unlike an AC motor, a switched reluctance motor has a series of electric coil windings mounted around an iron rotor attached to a central drive shaft.
From the newscientist.com
Generators are made up of a massive electromagnet on a rotor in the center of a stator, or a doughnut-shaped coil of wire.
From the timesunion.com
Placing the field coils on the rotor allows for an inexpensive slip ring mechanism to transfer high-voltage, low current power to the rotating field coil.