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Electrical Miscellaneous
Starter Characteristics
Starting Your Engine
AC/DC Generators
Alternator Circuits
200
Uses a small current from the ignition switch to control a larger current to the starter solenoid.
What is a relay
200

The Starter, Battery, Ignition Switch, Solenoid are main components of what system

What is the Starting System

200
Mainly used to start the vehicle and then is used for reserved power
What is the battery
200
Uses mechanical power to produce electricity
What is an Alternator or Generator
200

Current conventionally flows from _____ to _____ in the vehicles electrical system.

What is positive to negative

200

Supplies power to energize the alternator fields

What is the Battery

200
This safe guards the vehicle from starting with the transmission in gear
What is the Neutral Safety Switch
200

permament magnet and field coil are examples of what type of component

What are Starters

200

Connects the alternator pulley to the crankshaft pulley

What is a 'V' or Serpentine Belt

200
Controls the output voltage of the alternator
What is Regulator
200
The charging systems approximate voltage when the vehicle is running
What is 13.5-14.5 volts
200

When current is applied to the solenoid this is used to move a plunger which closes the contacts inside to transfer current from the battery to the starter.

What is Magnetism

200

The Starter Pinion Gear or Bendix Gear mesh with specifically what to turn over the engine

What is Ring Gear

200

Two types of old and new charging system components

What are AC and DC generators

200
Inside the Alternator this changes the AC (alternating current) into DC (direct current) so the vehicles electrical system can use it.
What is Rectifier Bridge
300

Due to heat expansion, what architectural wonder grows 6" in the summer?

Eiffel Tower

300
The city of Bologna declared war on the city of Modena over the theft of what item? (it's still in Modena to this day)

a bucket

300

in 1958 a Japanese monk invented what consumable good after experimenting in his shed for a year?

Instant Ramen

300

The main token of currency of the ancient Aztecs

Cocoa beans

300
Australians most famous lost war was against whom?

Emus

300

The voltmeter, ammeter and dummy light are used to convey what information to the driver

potential charging system failure

300

The starter is an electrical component that has to be a __________ torque electric motor

What is high torque

300
Acts like a heavy duty relay and may be mounted on a starter or inside the engine compartment.
What is a Solenoid
300

The DC generator is similar -but inverted- to what high torque component

What is the starter

300
Connects all the electrical system components
What is the wiring harness
300

Two styles of winding that use different amounts of power in a starter solenoid

hold-in and pull-in
300
Allows the pinion gear turns the flywheel for starting, and then releases in the other direction to let the gear freewheel as the engine starts
What is Over-running Clutch
300

Serves as a sliding connection between the starting motor armature windings and the brushes to keep the motor turning by controlling the current through the windings

What is Commutator

300

what component is more efficient, dependable, smaller and with a higher at idle than a DC generator

Alternator

300

The component that surrounds the rotor that has an induced current when the powered electromagnets of the rotor are spun

What is Stator