exciter

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Each machine has a simple exciter, and a simple governor is used for the machine at Bus 1.

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  1. noun One that excites: an exciter of animosity.
  2. noun An auxiliary generator used to provide field current for a larger generator or alternator.
  3. noun Electronics An oscillator for generating the carrier frequency of a transmitter.

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  • This motor generator is part of a suite of equipment called the Energy Storage Subsystem, which includes the motor generator, the generator control tower and the stored energy exciter power supply. —  Defense Industry Daily
  • For those who built their own rigs there were a couple of solutions for QSK in the handbooks, a heterodyne exciter where the mixer was keyed, and a "silenced VFO" where the always-on scillator was down in the broadcast band, was well shielded, and the doubler was keyed. —  eHam.net News
  • A 5.1 channel exciter, designed to open up your 5.1 mix. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • This allows Adaero to maintain a consistency of edge on parts such as airway management and gas mixing devices that are used in anaesthetic equipment, beam delivery, mirror block and valve bodies used in laser marking, cutting, exciter and the beam focus system components. —  Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
  • Other system components include an advanced receiver / exciter, ruggedized commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) processor, and power supplies. —  Defense Industry Daily
 

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/ɛkˈsaɪtər/
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