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    An amplidyne is an obsolete electromechanical amplifier invented prior to World War II by Ernst Alexanderson. It consists of an electric motor driving...
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    longwave long distance radio transmission. Alexanderson also created the amplidyne, a direct current amplifier used during the Second World War for controlling...
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    connected in the armature circuit. Armature reaction is essential in amplidyne rotating amplifiers. Armature reaction drop is the effect of a magnetic...
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    ballistic computer. Removed one coaxial machine gun. New turret electric amplidyne system traverse. Turret basket. M103A2 Produced 1964. 153 converted or...
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    Early systems just moved indicator dials, but with the advent of the amplidyne, as well as motor-driven high-powered hydraulic servos, the fire control...
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    to short battery life as a result of over-charging or under-charging. Amplidyne Metadyne Third Brush Generators - Yesterday's Tractors website v t e...
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  • the development of electrical fire-control servomechanisms, using an amplidyne as the power amplifier. Vacuum tube amplifiers were used in the UNISERVO...
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    Ultrasonic TEFC Axial flux Motor controllers AC-to-AC converter Cycloconverter Amplidyne Drives Variable-frequency drive Direct torque control Vector control Metadyne...
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  • into a large number of steps. Other electromagnetic machines include the Amplidyne, Synchro, Metadyne, Eddy current clutch, Eddy current brake, Eddy current...
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  • additional regulator or "variator" windings. It is also similar to an amplidyne except that the latter has a compensating winding which fully counteracts...
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    other than specialized power devices such as the magnetic amplifier and amplidyne, for 40 years. Power control circuitry used magnetic amplifiers until...
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  • years later they attempted a foray into high-end car audio, branded as Amplidyne. By the latter half of the 1980s, their automobile accessories were folded...
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    elevation drives were by D.C. motors fed from Amplidyne rotary power-amplifying generators. Although the train Amplidyne was rated at several kilowatts maximum...
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    {\displaystyle K_{m}=D_{m}+K_{B}^{2}(R_{g}^{a}+R_{m}^{a})} Adjustable-speed drive Amplidyne, an electromechanical amplifier invented during World War II Brushed DC...
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  • and the current flowing in them. Ampère's law Ampère's circuital law. amplidyne An electric machine that allows a small current to control a much larger...
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    amount of difference between the two. This signal was then sent into amplidynes that amplified the signal and drove motors that turned the light. Only...
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  • exciters, regulators, military ground power supplies, regulators (navy) and amplidyne regulators, and, the power supply for the Lunar Excursion Module of the...
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  • Ampere – Ampère's circuital law – Ampère's force law – Ampère's law – Amplidyne – Amplifier – Amplitude modulation – Analog circuit – Analog filter –...
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