[ARC5] More Condenser/Capacitor Trivia

Bill Cromwell wrcromwell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 16:08:11 EST 2016


Hi,

I served aboard U.S. Navy ships of WWII vintage (long since scrapped). 
Those had electrical units that were called dynamos and 
generators..sometimes in the same paragraph.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 02/22/2016 12:34 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>    Dynamo was the name used for the electrical generator on steam 
> locomotives used to operate the headlamp and marker lights.  I've 
> always seen it used to indicate a DC generator.
>    I think I've seen the term "accumulator" used for capacitors in 
> some very early literature probably 19th century.  I will try to find 
> a citation. However, I've always associated it with re-chargeable 
> batteries.
>



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