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  2. Hoover Vacuum Recall: Can Short-Circuit, Catch Fire - AOL

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    Hoover Inc. recalled about 142,000 Hoover WindTunnel Canister Vacuums after 69 reports of them overheating or shorting, even when turned off, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. ...

  3. Commutator (electric) - Wikipedia

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    Parts: (A) commutator, (B) brush, (C) rotor windings, (D) stator (field) windings, (E) brush guides, (F) electrical connections. A commutator is a rotary electrical switch in certain types of electric motors and electrical generators that periodically reverses the current direction between the rotor and the external circuit.

  4. List of wind tunnels - Wikipedia

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    Handley-Page Wind Tunnel 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) by 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) Low Speed Wind Tunnel 1.15 m (3 ft 9 in) by 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) Flow Visualisation Wind Tunnel 0.90 m (2 ft 11 in) by 0.90 m (2 ft 11 in) United Kingdom University of Manchester [17] Operational Hypersonic wind tunnel 6 in (150 mm) diameter

  5. Wind tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The inlet was almost 11 feet (3.4 m) in diameter and the discharge part was 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter. A 500 hp (370 kW) electric motor drove the paddle type fan blades. [11] In 1931 the NACA built a 30-by-60-foot (9.1 by 18.3 m) full-scale wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The tunnel was powered by a pair of fans ...

  6. The Hoover Company - Wikipedia

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    The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908.It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

  7. Supersonic wind tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The power required to run a supersonic wind tunnel is enormous, of the order of 50 MW per square meter of test section cross-sectional area. For this reason most wind tunnels operate intermittently using energy stored in high-pressure tanks.

  8. Sting (fixture) - Wikipedia

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    If the flow at model base is turbulent, critical sting length reduces to 3-5 model base diameters. Source [1] also suggests a sting diameter of no more than about 30% of model base diameter. However, this may not be possible in wind tunnels with high dynamic pressures because large aerodynamic loads would cause unacceptably large deflections ...

  9. Brush (electric) - Wikipedia

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    A pair of carbon brushes. A brush or carbon brush is an electrical contact, often made from specially prepared carbon, which conducts current between stationary and rotating parts (the latter most commonly being a rotating shaft) of an electrical machine. [1] Typical applications include electric motors, alternators and electric generators. The ...