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Originally Posted by IndyKTM
On my dirtbike, what you guys are referring to we call a stator. That could also be an acceptable name I believe. Unless I lost the ability to understand which specific item you guys are talking about.
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Sort of. All 3 HAVE a stator as part of the whole assembly that makes electrical power. Part of what makes them different is that the stator is wound differently.
In the beginning, all gas engines had a magneto, and for the most part, no batteries.
As electrical needs increased, a battery was added, the device making power changed and the new device got a new name: generator.
It was later discovered that this generator device could be simpler and cheaper and more reliable if the moving mechanism produced AC and then electronically rectified and filtered for DC. That new device is (usually) called an alternator.
Three different devices, three different names.