16-09-2015, 08:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-09-2015, 08:15 PM by Alan Douglas.)
Back in the old days before electronics, a numbered highway here was a "root" but in parts of the southwest it was "rout." So it annoys me to use "rowter" for the electronic device, although the woodworking tool was always called that, and that's been so even when it was a hand plane (used for making flat-bottomed recesses for hinges and the like).
"Inverter" has always meant something that takes DC and provides AC, as opposed to a "converter" that takes DC and supplies DC at a different voltage. These were rotating machines.
And strictly speaking, a "generator" puts out DC while an "alternator" supplies AC. However everyone talks about their "emergency generators" for household power, or "portable generators" to run tools a on a jobsite, so one just has to go with the flow.
"Inverter" has always meant something that takes DC and provides AC, as opposed to a "converter" that takes DC and supplies DC at a different voltage. These were rotating machines.
And strictly speaking, a "generator" puts out DC while an "alternator" supplies AC. However everyone talks about their "emergency generators" for household power, or "portable generators" to run tools a on a jobsite, so one just has to go with the flow.
