The topic of DC electric motor repair is typically straightforward, but let’s take a moment to think about something else simply tangentially related – yet quite essential, in other respects, to the matter.
Instead of machines and the physical forces that move them, think now of men and their feelings, their pride and their prejudices.
Though keeping the general aspects of DC electric motor repair in your mind – all the wiring, the insulation, the windings and bearings and shafs – think also of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
There’s arguably no more famous man of applied science than American inventor Thomas Edison, but Nikola Tesla was in a sense his fairly bitter rival – bitter due to all the money concerned, with Westinghouse Electric nearly bankrupt in the process.
(Yes, who knew DC electric motor repair could have so much historical baggage attached?)
During the time, Edison’s DC or direct current power was the eletrical distribution regular in the United States, with the man locking up many a patent and its profitable royalty subsequently.
Tesla came up with a system utilizing alternate current, or AC, which at some point proved better in more ways than one.
It was more efficient, had a much, much better range, and was safer to use.
DC electricity was soon swapped out, though isolated pockets of DC usage has held on into the Twenty-First Century, with the last DC users in the United States served as late as 2006.
DC power is relegated to short distances today, with applications ranging from off-grid green energy installations using wind or perhaps solar power to the more acquainted one found in electronics such as computers and cell phones.
Despite its much scaled back scope of use, DC era and distribution fulfills a number of niches excellently and will most likely never die out.
