AC Electrical Generator Basics - How electricity is generated

Electrical generator basics. Learn the basic operation of an electrical generator, learn how magnets are used to generate electricity in a coil of wire. We then cover 3 phase three phase electricity and briefly the star configuration in this video on how electricity is generated.
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[@BigblackDavis]

What I’m still not getting is how the current itself forms. What can produce enough electrons to power anything by just putting a wire on its opposing fields? Maybe what I’m missing is how to create a battery. I’m assuming the trick isn’t electrons necessarily, but having a material that can have its electron manipulated. So I guess I need to figure out why lithium or whatever can even power anything

[@danbuchner28]

@@BigblackDavis Think of the simultaneous electric and magnetic fields. They are perpendicular to each other. The e-field generates a corresponding m-field. If you wind wires many times, the m-field is enhanced. That is how transformers and motors/generators work.

[@BigblackDavis]

@@danbuchner28 but in the example your giving it sounds like you already have an electric current, what I’m wondering is how can I create the initial electric current.

[@danbuchner28]

@BigblackDavis Think about the right hand rule. Your thumb is the direction of the current, while your fingers are the direction of the magnetic field. You start a motor by applying a voltage, which induces a current.

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We have to try and strike a balance, for some it's too slow and some it's too fast. It's impossible to be perfect for everyone but we try. We might make an 18min video that took 2 weeks to make, but average view time is just say 4 mins. Our hard work has therefore gone to waste, so we're trying some shorter more concise videos. Then if it's popular, we can go deeper.

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Thank you! This is an excellent explanation of how single and three phase AC electricity is generated.

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Great video, thank you. Could you do a video on synchronised generators. Example take 4 small wind generators producing 3 volts, combine them to output 12 volts or charge a 12 volt battery.

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[@EpicLetsPlayer100]

This video explains perfectly how an AC Electrical Generator works. But I'm pretty sure there is one misconception. You don't induce a current, but a voltage. The potential different which you now have, leads to a current in the coil. The formula also says it: Voltage = - d(electric flow)/dt, so there is no current with this effect. If I'm wrong, I'm am thankful if you correct me.

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you are correct. he said it indirectly on 0:30

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does this mean it doesnt produce any current?

[@wiktor_2113]

@@benmangan9922 It does produce current by changing the difference of the potential on the coil, which is both Faraday and Lenz law (a mix of two) if you move the magnet in and out of the coil you slowly convert the kinetic energy into the electromagnetic field but simply said when you push the magnet into the coil and pull it out nothing noticable happens, because you cant see the electrons you are moving with the magnet itself (Faraday Law), but after several repetitions of the exact same movement you will start to feel the force of the EM field you have created on the coil, counter action of the EM field on the coil which means the field will change potentials to stop you from moving the magnet (Lenz Law), now if you manage to change the potentials on that field, it means you have moved electrons because you cant generate a electromagnetic field without the movement of electrons, when the electrons move they create current and that current creates electromagnetic field.

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Great video, could you explain "Difference of potential"? I don't understand the concept. I know it's what voltage is, but what exactly does it mean and how does it specifically effect electrons (Aka how does it "push" them in a direction, and how do you even get a difference in potential vs no difference). A detailed explanation would be amazing!

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I think we covered this in out voltage explained video and capacitor video

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Someone once gave me the simple explanation that voltage is like the water pressure and current is the actual water flowing through. That's why voltage like lightning can be thousands of volts but you survive and current can stop the heart at quarter of an amp.

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Thanks for the information. i would like to have this information when i was studyng. so this is what we call a Three-phase AC generator right?

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[@DJayAce4]

Question: When the magnetic field is passing through the copper coil on the positive side for example, making the current flow in a particular direction, what tells it to go THAT particular direction? Do the electrons in the atoms just "enjoy" going left vs right depending on the North or South pole? I assume it has to do with the magnet pushing or pulling in the atoms, but just not sure. Don't want to assume! Thank you for any help on this :)

[@DJayAce4]

Alright actually I just researched it and will answer my own question, for anyone else down the road reading it and wondering the same thing. So yes, depending on the north or south pole, magnets will either try pulling in or pushing out the electrons in the copper wire.

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