> It simply not a configuration I have seen before, and I was curious if it had a name.

FYI there seem to be a lot of these but without the wound rotor. That 
wound rotor should help with starting under load. It was probably fried 
by starting it under load.

There is a schematic on the web where someone built exactly such a 
generator out of an old Briggs motor and a capacitor run ac motor 
(capacitor run ac is usually squirrel cage - your wound rotor is like a 
squirrell cage rotor but better).

Peter
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