Talk:Stator

Image
Can anybody add an image of stator ? Thanks in advance.

Fixed template
I updated the otheruses4 template to look slightly nicer. To do so, I had to use Template:!, which is described as a high-risk template. I'm not sure what that means, so if I've used it incorrectly, please feel free to fix it and give me a lecture on my talk page. WakingLili (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

article needs to be generalized
I don't like the way this article talks only about motors. The stator is a component of at least five different very common electromotive devices, and it's not appropriate to confine the discussion only to motors.

I've tried bludgeoning it into better shape but it needs more work and I'm tired right now..

DMahalko (talk) 03:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I've taken over the field coil article, which was just a redirect to here. Field coils can be on the rotor or stator so again, needs work. DMahalko (talk) 03:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have swapped Field winding to redirect to Field coil for the same reason. Eigenbanana (talk) 00:34, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I've added information about stators as they are a part of electromechanical sirens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.185.73.45 (talk) 23:49, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Definition
I would opt to change the definition to: A stator is the electricity generating stationary part of a electric generator.

This change would make the article more clear —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.90.148 (talk) 11:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, that's not quite right. Motors and generators have a stator, which is stationary, and a rotor, which rotates. They have  field, which is usually fed with DC (and may be a permanent magnet), and an armature, which is the main input or output. Normally, the field is on the stator, but there are "inside out" machines where the field rotates. See this picture: . (We need that picture redrawn for Wikipedia.)  It's common for very large generators to be built "inside out", because the power is generated in the armature winding, and if that's the stationary winding, it doesn't have to be fed out through high-power slip rings and brushes.  Also, "field" redirects here, which it shouldn't. John Nagle (talk) 20:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)