. Western electrician . ,000lights, and a United States machine for municipal lightingcarrying 150 lights, 500 volts, five lamps in series. The westside equipment comprises a 20 kilowatt Edison machine,carrying a maximum of about 400 lij^hts on the two-wiresystem, a Weston 150 light 500 volt dynamo and a 30 lightarc Thomson-Houston machine. There are no gas worksin the (own. The storage battery plant recently installed is situatedmidway between the east and west side stations, on the lineof the trolley road, about three-fourths of a mile from theeast side power house and one-fourth mile from t
. Western electrician . ,000lights, and a United States machine for municipal lightingcarrying 150 lights, 500 volts, five lamps in series. The westside equipment comprises a 20 kilowatt Edison machine,carrying a maximum of about 400 lij^hts on the two-wiresystem, a Weston 150 light 500 volt dynamo and a 30 lightarc Thomson-Houston machine. There are no gas worksin the (own. The storage battery plant recently installed is situatedmidway between the east and west side stations, on the lineof the trolley road, about three-fourths of a mile from theeast side power house and one-fourth mile from the centerof west side light distr-bution. The plant consists of 24011 Echloride accumulators with a capacity of 500 amperehours at 50 ampere rate. The batteries are divided into fourseries of 60 cells each, connected to a switchboard, so ar-ranged that the cells may be connected to the railway, 240in series, or to the lighting circuits in two parallel series of60 cells each on each side of the three-wire system, capable. garlocks water-pkoof hydraulic packing. of supplying nominally 400 16 candle power lamps for tenhours, or, at maximum discharge, 600 lamps. An inde-pendent feeder connects the battery with the east side powerhouse three-fourths mile distant. A variable resistance isplaced in circuit between battery and railway so that whenthe battery is fully charged, requiring a voltage of 600, thevoltage on the railway may be cut down if necessary. The operation of the east side lighting and the nightrunning of cars (or rather car) was most unsatisfactory beforethe battery plant was installed. Owing to lack of power itwas necessary to couple together railway and lighting waterwheels, so that the slightest variation in railway demandwas apparent in light. Only one car could be run duringlightmg hours. That the dwellers in Merrills east sideshould consider electric lighting a failure and that thetraveler in the slow traveling, dindy lighted car sighed forthe return of the ancie
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