. The Street railway journal . 142 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 5. serve to drive llie exciters. They are run at 270 r. p. m.,and are capable of developing 85 effective horse-power ata pressure of 165 lbs. The entire steam engine plant was furnished by theItalian manufacturing company, Franco Fosi & Company,of Lugano. To each of the large steam engines mentioned above isdirectly coupled a three-phase alternator of the revolvingfield type, capable of giving a normal output of 750 kw,with non-inductive load, overload of 25 per cent for twohours and an instantaneous overload of 40 per
. The Street railway journal . 142 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 5. serve to drive llie exciters. They are run at 270 r. p. m.,and are capable of developing 85 effective horse-power ata pressure of 165 lbs. The entire steam engine plant was furnished by theItalian manufacturing company, Franco Fosi & Company,of Lugano. To each of the large steam engines mentioned above isdirectly coupled a three-phase alternator of the revolvingfield type, capable of giving a normal output of 750 kw,with non-inductive load, overload of 25 per cent for twohours and an instantaneous overload of 40 per cent. Thefield winding is distributed over thirty-two spools, giving,at the normal speed of 94 r. p. m., a frequency of 25 cyclesper second. The armature is wound to generate 13,000volts directly. To each of the two vertical steam enginesis directly connected a six-pole direct-current generator of
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