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Old 15th May 2006, 17:04   #38 (permalink)
santosh.s
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Originally Posted by jat
I did not know about your qualification. Thanks for reminding me. We would definetly need your help on Automobile electronics.
well, I just felt that I have been unaware of something which probably can be considered as very basic knowledge for my profession/qualification, and wanted to admit the same...did not intend to remind anybody of anything

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Any way here it is again
If AC is alternator then why DC can not be called director :-)
#26.
If I had an answer to this question, then I would have already known the difference in the first place!

BTW, did some google'ing to know more about the word dynamo, out of curiosity. What it revealed is this- dynamo is a short form of "dynamo-electric machine", which implies "motion" and "electricity". It was used to refer to both AC and DC generators earlier, but later AC generator got the name alternator and dynamo continued to be used mainly for DC generators. (for example, refer to this: http://www.bookrags.com/sciences/sci...rator-woi.html )
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