. The Street railway journal . ARMATURE COMPLETE, WITH QUILL SUSPENSION perfectly feasible, provided the controlling apparatus and carcircuits are arranged for this purpose. Consider, next, the case of feeding power back into theline and controlling it. It would appear when looking at theproblem broadly, that a motor which could have its speed andpower varied so economically over a wide range, should alsobe capable of reversing its functions and becoming a gener-ator of power with an economical control over a wide speedrange; and it has been determined in an extended series ofshop tests, that
. The Street railway journal . ARMATURE COMPLETE, WITH QUILL SUSPENSION perfectly feasible, provided the controlling apparatus and carcircuits are arranged for this purpose. Consider, next, the case of feeding power back into theline and controlling it. It would appear when looking at theproblem broadly, that a motor which could have its speed andpower varied so economically over a wide range, should alsobe capable of reversing its functions and becoming a gener-ator of power with an economical control over a wide speedrange; and it has been determined in an extended series ofshop tests, that the single-phase type of railway motor doespossess this property under certain conditions. A number of NEW HAVEN MOTOR IN POSITION ON TRUCK line for a long enough period to represent a fair proportionof the total time of operation. Both this method and thatwhere the power is absorbed in a rheostat, are valuable in re-lieving the wear of the brake shoes, which is a very importantitem on very long grades. The resistance method o
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