. The Street railway journal . GENERATING UNIT. BOILER ROOM supplied with alternating cur-rent by two 300-kw trans-formers. The exciter set forthe alternators is a steam-driven unit, being a 75-kw,250-volt Westinghouse set,making 290 r. p. m. A 40-tonBrown hand crane is operatedover the engines, a 20-tonBrown hand crane over therotaries, and a 12-ton Whit-ing hand crane over thetransformers. The switchboards are lo-cated on the main floor andon a gallery back of therotary converters. Directcurrent for the trolley linesof the Seattle Electric Com-pany is supplied by the rail-way rotaries above
. The Street railway journal . GENERATING UNIT. BOILER ROOM supplied with alternating cur-rent by two 300-kw trans-formers. The exciter set forthe alternators is a steam-driven unit, being a 75-kw,250-volt Westinghouse set,making 290 r. p. m. A 40-tonBrown hand crane is operatedover the engines, a 20-tonBrown hand crane over therotaries, and a 12-ton Whit-ing hand crane over thetransformers. The switchboards are lo-cated on the main floor andon a gallery back of therotary converters. Directcurrent for the trolley linesof the Seattle Electric Com-pany is supplied by the rail-way rotaries above men-tioned. BATTERIES There is also a railway bat-tery in this station, built andinstalled by the Electric Stor-age Battery Company. Thisbattery is composed of 278cells of type-G cell has 23 plates in thetank. The full load voltage of 650 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 18. the battery is 578, and the discharge capacity is 880 amps., at theone-hour rate. The battery room is 69 ft. 10^ ins. long, 42 ins. wide and 10 ft.
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