Timeline for Is there a difference between a "brushless motor" and a "motor without brushes"?
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 6:02 | comment | added | Drew♦ | Sorry, yes I believe you're correct, I was thinking of inrunners and outrunners. Technically the coils do move in an induction motor, and it is brushess, but I wouldn't normally call that a "brushless motor". | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 1:23 | comment | added | guskenny83 | @Drew Is that true though? From the wiki article linked in this answer: "In all brushless motors, the coils are stationary." Which means that the coils will always be on the stator of a brushless motor doesn't it? You could configure it so that the stator is either in the centre or the outside of the motor, but the coils are always stationary. It appears in this Dyson motor that the coils are on the rotor, but it doesn't have brushes - so does that mean it is still a "brushless motor", and if so, does that mean the wiki article is wrong? | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 9:02 | comment | added | Drew♦ | You can make a brushless motor either way. | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 7:17 | comment | added | guskenny83 | So does that mean that the coils are on the stator and not the rotor, and it just looks that way in the pictures? | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 7:11 | history | answered | Tiger Guy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |