. The street railway review . l field type built by that com- on the main floor. Two Thomson recording wattmeters measurethe output, one serving each half of the generator board. The gen-erator panels have in addition to the regular General Electric ap-paratus a Siemens & Halske device for opening the shunt fieldcircuit. This is an arrangement whereby the final break of thefield circuit is made by gradually separating two carbon points untilthe arc gets so long that it breaks the circuit. This method, it isclaimed, gets rid of the dangerous inductive kick when the fieldcircuit it opened. All t
. The street railway review . l field type built by that com- on the main floor. Two Thomson recording wattmeters measurethe output, one serving each half of the generator board. The gen-erator panels have in addition to the regular General Electric ap-paratus a Siemens & Halske device for opening the shunt fieldcircuit. This is an arrangement whereby the final break of thefield circuit is made by gradually separating two carbon points untilthe arc gets so long that it breaks the circuit. This method, it isclaimed, gets rid of the dangerous inductive kick when the fieldcircuit it opened. All the feeders leave the station from one cornerof the engine room basement. From the switchboard they passstraight down and then run along a rack on one wall of the base-ment to the manhole of the underground conduit on Western boiler room contains 20 400-h. p. Stirling water tube was said to be the largest single order of the kind ever placedat the time it was made. Oil was used as fuel and no provision.
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