. The Street railway journal . FIG. -THE THREE 300 K\V ROTARIES. FIG. I.—SWITCHBOARD AND BATTERY BOOSTER Batteries have also been power is generatedat 2400 volts, twophase, and steppedup to 22,000 volts,three phase, andthus delivered 34miles to Hamilton. The sub-stationat Aictoria Ave~-nue, Hamilton,contains all themachinery re-quired to trans-form and distrib-ute the current forthe various usesrequired. Thuspower is distrib-uted to the Hamil-ton Street RailwayCompany, theHamflton & Dun-das Railway andthe Hamilton Ra-dial Railway, andis also used for to an astonishing degreeused very extensive
. The Street railway journal . FIG. -THE THREE 300 K\V ROTARIES. FIG. I.—SWITCHBOARD AND BATTERY BOOSTER Batteries have also been power is generatedat 2400 volts, twophase, and steppedup to 22,000 volts,three phase, andthus delivered 34miles to Hamilton. The sub-stationat Aictoria Ave~-nue, Hamilton,contains all themachinery re-quired to trans-form and distrib-ute the current forthe various usesrequired. Thuspower is distrib-uted to the Hamil-ton Street RailwayCompany, theHamflton & Dun-das Railway andthe Hamilton Ra-dial Railway, andis also used for to an astonishing degreeused very extensively in connection with roadsoperating from high-tension alternating-currenttransmission with rotary conversion to 500 voltsdirect current, the batteries in such a casebeinginstalled both in the power house and in the rotarysub-stations. The advantage of installations of the above gen-eral character are too well known for additionalcomment here, but it is the desire to call attentionto one particular use of batteries in conjunctionwith 6o-cycle rotary conv
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