Talk:Motor

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Can someone explain the difference between a motor and an engine in the article? basilwhite 18:45 EST Feb 11, 2006

shouldn't this be a disambiguous page? Diploid 11:53 EST Feb 15, 2005

Although engines, particularly vehicle engines, are often referred to as motors, many engineers and others believe that that is not a proper use of the term motor. A machine that converts heat to mechanical energy is called a heat engine. Most machines that are called engines, such as internal combustion engines, actually perform two energy conversion operations. The chemical energy in a fuel is converted to heat by the process of combustion and the resulting heat energy is converted to mechanical energy by a heat engine process. The thermodynamics article should describe the basic theory of heat engines.

[edit] transduces vs. converts

I believe that a transducer is generally considered to be a signal conditioning device rather than an energy conversion device.--C J Cowie 00:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The new link is fine, but transduce and transducer are not application-specific terms. Please at least read a dictionary definition before performing an edit predicated on assumption! Surely the former link was at least a hint? – Ringbang 15:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

A link to electojects.com has been repeatedly added to Stepper motor, Electric motor and Brushless DC electric motor by Special:Contributions/217.53.109.235, Special:Contributions/82.201.156.201, Special:Contributions/217.53.107.168, Special:Contributions/217.53.16.164, and others.

The link in question is registered to Abdoh Ali Mohamed, Hay Swesri, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.[1]

I wonder if the four IP addresses listed above have any connection... Naw, couldn't be. [2][3][4][5] Egypt is a big country. Must be a coincidence.

I'm going to start patrolling wikipedia for any links to electojects.com or redirects to it and deleting them on sight. If they come back, I'll move to blacklist the address. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 19:38, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Stepper_motor#Spam - Mdsummermsw (talk) 19:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)