. The Street railway journal . tor located in the power house and connectedin series with a long-distance feeder. The current flowing throughthe armature excites the field with the effect that the gen-erated in such a machine is almost proportional to the currentpassing through it, and, as the drop of potential in the feeder isalso proportioned to the current passing through it, the dutyperformed by the booster is simply to add as much to the , as is lost in the feeder. Thus, although the total voltage atthe power house may be considerably increased, the voltage de-livered t
. The Street railway journal . tor located in the power house and connectedin series with a long-distance feeder. The current flowing throughthe armature excites the field with the effect that the gen-erated in such a machine is almost proportional to the currentpassing through it, and, as the drop of potential in the feeder isalso proportioned to the current passing through it, the dutyperformed by the booster is simply to add as much to the , as is lost in the feeder. Thus, although the total voltage atthe power house may be considerably increased, the voltage de-livered to the trolley line does not rise above that of the are of course various ways of driving a booster generator,but the method usually employed by the Westinghouse companyis to drive it by means of a motor which receives its power from nineteen miles. The distance from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti isabout nine miles. Four Westinghouse Kodak gener-ators, two at each station, will supply the power, and there will. 0000000000 Cv<!DOc\l4-inOOO - - 01 Aniperef Load. FIG. 8.—CURVES OF 800 GENERATOR n be two Westinghouse boosters at the Ypsilanti station and oneat the Dearborn station. These will be connected in series withthe feeders running from the Ypsilanti station toward Ann Arborand from each station toward the middle of the section between
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