Please can someone advise me on DC generator?

I understand that there are either series, compound or shunt wound generators. Please can someone advise me what is meant by the field winding on the generator. This is for a college assignment...

Thanks alot for your help, plus if anyone knows of any good website with info on DC generation would be much appreciated!

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2 Responses to “Please can someone advise me on DC generator?”

gc-p on December 9th, 2009 at 8:35 pm

This looks like a good page:
jrrymiller on December 9th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

gc-p gave you a good starting place. There are entire books (text books) devoted to the study of DC machines. You could write a masters thesis on the design of these machines.

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