to make contact with the brushes and transfer the current to the appropiate windings in the armature.
Another AnswerA commutator is a rotary reversing switch. It's function is to reverse the direction of the current through the rotor windings as they rotate, to ensure that the current direction around the windings remain in the same direction relative to the magnetic field, so that the torque always acts in the same direction.
The commutator is part of the armature on a DC motor and this assembly is the rotating element of a motor.
Commutator is a device in a motor through which supply is fed.
Found one DC motor having small sparking,but the commutator is light and dark bar pattern.commutator is round. We 500kw dC motor operted at 500rpm with 480Amp's .The DC motor full load current is 1050Amp's. Why the commutator had small spaerking.
Ac motor have slip ring, to remove the slip ring,connected to the commutator its a dc motor.
To state it simply, a DC brushless motor is not a DC motor. It is an AC motor with an inverter (or electronic commutator) on the front end to make the AC, so you can use a DC input.
Commutator and brushes.
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It is the process of conversion of generated ac voltage into the armature of a dc generator to dc voltage at the terminal of the dc generator by use of pair of brushes and commutator. OR It is the process of conversion of given dc voltage at the terminal of the dc motor to ac voltage in the armature windings in a dc motor by use of pair of brushes and commutator.
A commutator less DC motor is nothing but a self controlled synchronous motor is being widely used in industries for high speed and large capacity.
The commutator is a rotating switch, which reverse the polarity of the generated voltage every half-cycle. So it acts to rectify the output voltage.
its commutator..which converts ac produced by and motor to pulsating dc ... more the commutator divide more accurate dc..means less pulse in dc