Pacific service magazine . ided to construct an entirely new station is largely for the purposeof furnishing direct current to the KeySystem for the operation of its street alternating current can be transmittedeconomically over any considerable dis-tance; on the other hand street railwaymotors require direct current. These con-ditions were met by the installation of three1,000-kilowatt rotary converters, whichreceive the incoming alternating currentand, after conversion, send it out to therailway feeders as 600-volt direct addition to its converter equipment,
Pacific service magazine . ided to construct an entirely new station is largely for the purposeof furnishing direct current to the KeySystem for the operation of its street alternating current can be transmittedeconomically over any considerable dis-tance; on the other hand street railwaymotors require direct current. These con-ditions were met by the installation of three1,000-kilowatt rotary converters, whichreceive the incoming alternating currentand, after conversion, send it out to therailway feeders as 600-volt direct addition to its converter equipment,this station supplies several 4,000-voltfeeders serving a considerable residential andcommercial demand in that territory. It isalso the switching center for the 11,000-voltcircuits entering Oakland from ClaremontSubstation on the shore of Little Lake Cha-bot, which is in turn tied into the companyshigh-tension network into which the hugehydro-electric and steam-electric plants entirely different situation obtained. Station F, Berkeley, Exterior of the building at Station J with reference to Station L, situatedon Twentieth Street between San Pabl-^and Telegraph Avenues. No station hadexisted here, this territory having beenserved from Station A at the foot ofGrove Street. Not only had the area with-in reach of the new station increased greatlyin demand, but the same was true of thewhole of down-town Oakland, all of whichwas served from Station A. In thatvicinity was the greatest activity in floodlighting and electric signs, not to mentionthe growing appreciation of the value ofhigher intensities of store lighting. It wasobvious that the only solution lay in takinga portion of the district away from StationA, and serving it from new SubstationL. In addition to the growth of domes-tic and commercial requirements there wasalso an increase in the Key System demandwhich had been carried from old StationE at Oakland Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street. New Station L was according
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