Where would we be without a car starter?
August 17th, 2020
You probably don’t think about it much unless you’ve had a challenge with your car starting, but this little motor is vital to getting you where you need to go. It is small electric motor with a framework that ends in a gear. Your engine's flywheel has a ring gear that the starter gear, called the drive gear, engages. When the starter motor runs, it spins the drive gear, which turns the ring gear and the flywheel. That cranks the engine and starts the combustion cycle.
In the early days of automobile history, cars were cranked by hand to get them starte ...[more]
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How Does My Car Starter Work
August 17th, 2020
Your car starter works like any electric motor. There are fixed magnets with opposite poles on either side of the framework. The framework acts as an electromagnet. It has two plates one on each side called commutators.
The commutators accept a charge from the battery through steel brushes or fixed copper that touch them. This action turns the framework into a two-pole magnet. Each pole of the framework is repelled by its identical-pole fixed magnet and attracted by the opposite pole magnet.
The side of the framework with the positive charged commutator will spin toward the north magnet and the side of the armature with the negatively charged commutator will spin toward the south magnet. The b ...[more]
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