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SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS

12.2 CHAPTER TWELVE

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(a)
(b)

(c)

(d)
FIGURE 12.1 (a) A salient six-pole rotor for a synchronous machine. (b) Photograph of a salient eight-
pole synchronous machine rotor showing the windings on the individual rotor poles. (Courtesy of General
Electric Company.) (c) Photograph of a single salient pole from a rotor with the field windings not yet in
place. (Courtesy of General Electric Company.) (d) A single salient pole shown after the field windings are
installed but before it is mounted on the rotor. (Courtesy of Westinghouse Electric Company.)

FIGURE 12.2 A nonsalient two-pole rotor for a synchronous machine.

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