electric starter
Motorized cranking device
An electric starter is a motor that uses battery power to turn an engine's crankshaft, initiating combustion.
Before electric starters became standard in automobiles around the 1920s, engines required hand-cranking—a dangerous process that could break arms if the crank kicked back.
Now any vehicle with an internal combustion engine has one: The electric starter failed, so we had to jump the car.
- ignitionStarting combustion process
- ignition switchEngine activation control
- motorEnergy-to-motion converter
- crankRotary operating handle
- batteryPortable electricity storage
turn the key · dead battery · solenoid · engine · engine block · turnover · spark · key · flywheel · alternator · kickstart · combustion · torque · gear · armature · click · grinding noise · rumble
- ignitersigniter, lighter, match, spark plug, flint
- ignition partsspark plug, ignition coil, distributor, distributor cap, ignition switch
electric starterpull cord
Line you tug
hand crank · kick starter · push start · pull start · crank start
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