D C

Generator
Definition:
DC Generator
converts mechanical
energy into electrical
energy based on the
fundamental
principle of Faradays
Law of
Electromagnetic
Induction.
Hence, the most basic two essential parts of a generator are:
1. magnetic field
2. conductors
Parts of DC Generator
 YOKE

The outer frame of a dc machine is called as yoke.

It is made up of cast iron or steel.
 FIELD MAGNET

They are fixed to the magnetic frame or yoke by bolts.

The pole core and shoes are made of thin cast steel or
wrought iron laminations which are riveted together
under hydraulic pressure.
POLE COILS

They consist of
copper wire
wounded on the
Former.
 ARMATURE CORE

It houses the armature conductors with

cylindrical in shape.
 ARMATURE
WINDING

The conductors are wedged, and bands of steel wire

wound around the core and are suitably connected. This
arrangement of conductors is called Armature Winding.
 COMMUTATOR

It is of cylindrical structure and is built up of wedge-

shaped segments of high conductivity.
 BRUSH

Brushes are the structures placed on the rotating

commutator. Generally it is made of carbon, which can
give smooth surface at the contacts.
H I S T O R Y O F
DC GENERATOR
 Michael Faradays discovery of electromagnetic
induction demonstrated a way to construct a simple
generator.

The earliest commercial uses of electricity, such

as telegraphy, arc lighting systems, and metal
electroplating used batteries as their power source.
 In the 1860s and 1870s many inventors sought
ways of using Faradays induction principle to
generate electricity mechanically.

Two kinds of generators emerged. The first type

was a generator of direct current (DC) electricity. The
second type was a generator of alternating current
(AC) electricity.
 One of the most important inventors of generators
was German Werner von Siemens, who designed
improved DC generators and called them dynamos.

An even better generator was introduced by French

Znobe-Thophile Gramme in 1867, which produced
substantially higher voltages than previous attempts.
In 1872, however, von Siemens reemerged and
invented what is essentially the modern type of
dynamo, referred to as the drum armature type of
machine, which was a more efficient design.

AC and DC generators were both used from the

1870s on.