. The street railway review . plate with the turbine and reduction gears. In connection with these three tur-bine exciter sets there is being installed a horizontal engine with asingle cylinder 13x14 in. in size. This engine will he direct con-nected to a loo-kw., 125-volt, direct current generator designed torun at a speed of 250 r. p. in. When needed this set will operate inparallel with the other exciter sets. The entire engine room is served by an .Alfred Box hand operatedcrane of 20-ton capacity. From each of the 3-phasc generators the current at 13,200 voltspotential is led in cables to
. The street railway review . plate with the turbine and reduction gears. In connection with these three tur-bine exciter sets there is being installed a horizontal engine with asingle cylinder 13x14 in. in size. This engine will he direct con-nected to a loo-kw., 125-volt, direct current generator designed torun at a speed of 250 r. p. in. When needed this set will operate inparallel with the other exciter sets. The entire engine room is served by an .Alfred Box hand operatedcrane of 20-ton capacity. From each of the 3-phasc generators the current at 13,200 voltspotential is led in cables to G. K. motor-operated oil switches builtinto tlie structure of the bus-bar compartments. This structure,which is made up of the machine switches, line switches and bus-bar cells with their sectionalizing switches, is built upon the engineroom floor between the generator ends of the main units and theoutside wall of the engine room. Red pressed brick and soap-stone carefully laid form the walls so that the structure presents a. EXCITER SETS DRIVEN BV STE.\M TURBINES—WYOMING AVE. AND 2ND ST. 534 STREET Ki:\lI-.\V [Vol. XV, No. 9. neat appearance in the engine room. From the machine switchesthe cnrrent passes by means of separate cables for each phasethrougli individual cells to connect with the main bus-bars extend-ing the length of the compartments. The bars may at will be di-\ided into sections by hand-throw knife-switches mounted on glasspedestals cemented into the soapstonc barriers. The current for theoutgoing high-potential feeders is taken through single conductorcables in individual cells connecting the bus-bar compartments withthe proper cells of 10 G. E, motor-operated line switches whosewalls form a part of the general bus-bar structure. From each ofthese line switches the three conductors enter the terminal hell of one exception transmitted by means of underground cables fromthe alternating-current generating station at Second St, and Wyom-ing Ave, This exce
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