- Industry: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
An electric motor having both series and shunt field windings. The two windings are connected in such a way that the magnetic field produced by the shunt winding opposes the field produced by the series winding.
Industry:Aviation
An electric motor totally enclosed in a housing. Explosive gases cannot get into the housing to explode, and sparks produced inside the housing cannot ignite gases on the outside.
Industry:Aviation
An electric motor which has both a series and a shunt field winding. A series motor has a high starting torque, but poor speed control. A shunt motor has a low starting torque, but good speed control. A compound motor has some of the good characteristics of both types of motors.
Industry:Aviation
An electric or pneumatic motor that drives a chuck which holds a twist drill. The best drill motors produce high torque, and their speed can be controlled.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical cable made up of individually insulated wires. A bundled cable is tied together with lacing cord or with special plastic wire-wrapping straps.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical charge that can exist on the plates of a capacitor or on an insulated object. A negative electrostatic charge is caused by an accumulation of electrons, and a positive charge is caused by a lack of electrons.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical circuit containing four impedances connected in such a way that their schematic diagram forms a square. One pair of diagonally opposite corners is connected to an input device, and the other two corners are connected to the output device.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical circuit in which a tapped resistor or a series of resistors is installed across a voltage source to provide various output voltages. The sum of the voltage drops across each of the resistances in a voltage divider is the same as the voltage across the entire resistance.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical circuit in which all of the opposition to the flow of electrons is caused by circuit resistance. In a resistive circuit, the current and voltage are in phase.
Industry:Aviation
