Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Rotary converter

1909 500 kW Westinghouse rotary converter

A rotary converter is a type of electrical machine which acts as a mechanical rectifier, inverter or frequency converter.

Rotary converters were used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), or DC to AC power, before the advent of chemical or solid state power rectification and inverting. They were commonly used to provide DC power for commercial, industrial and railway electrification from an AC power source.[1]

  1. ^ Owen, Edward L (1996-01-01). "History". IEEE. doi:10.1109/2943.476602. Retrieved 2022-11-15.

Previous Page Next Page