Talk:Singly fed electric machine

References?

How about some references for all of this? It's a new classification for me and I've been in the business for a little while. --Wtshymanski 23:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Better explanations, please!

I'm a complete electronics layman, but interested in the field and trying to learn what I can. I wandered over here from the Electrical generator article, and was dismayed to find that the ostensibly explanatory text in this article effectively explains not much -- I don't even see many links that would help me to understand what the terms here are. For example:

Singly-fed electric machines (i.e., electric motors or electric generators) belong to a category of electric machines that incorporate one multiphase winding set, which is independently excited, actively participates in the energy conversion process (i.e., is singly-fed), and determines the full electro-mechanical conversion power rating of the machine.

I'm left scratching my head here about the following completely opaque terminology:

1. What is a "multiphase winding set"?
2. What does "independently excited" mean?
3. What does "actively participates in the energy conversion process" mean, and how is this related to "singly-fed"? (For that matter, defining a "singly-fed electric machine" as "singly-fed" seems a bit tautological.)

Could someone trained in the art please rework this article to be somewhat more accessible to the curious layman? TIA, and cheers -- Erik Anderson, 69.29.209.16 (talk) 02:18, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Fixed that. A singly fed electrical machine is an ordinary motor or generator, with only one set of wires coming out. This term is rarely used except in contrast with exotic doubly-fed electric machines. John Nagle (talk) 20:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)