. Electric railway journal . SAMPLE RECORD MADE BY FARE RECORDER Regulating Voltage for Car Lighting An Automatic Regulator Which Varies Resistance inSeries with Car Lamps Voltage variation renders lighting unsatisfactory inmany cases, particularly on interurban lines. Wherethrough service is given, it is especially important tosupply illumination suitable to permit reading. Wherethe density of traffic over a line is great enough towarrant the investment in sufficient copper, reasonablygood lighting can be furnished. Otherwise there re-. REGULATOR INCLOSED IN STEEL CASE FOR MOUNTING IN motorma
. Electric railway journal . SAMPLE RECORD MADE BY FARE RECORDER Regulating Voltage for Car Lighting An Automatic Regulator Which Varies Resistance inSeries with Car Lamps Voltage variation renders lighting unsatisfactory inmany cases, particularly on interurban lines. Wherethrough service is given, it is especially important tosupply illumination suitable to permit reading. Wherethe density of traffic over a line is great enough towarrant the investment in sufficient copper, reasonablygood lighting can be furnished. Otherwise there re-. REGULATOR INCLOSED IN STEEL CASE FOR MOUNTING IN motormans CAB mains only the storage battery, which is expensive toinstall and maintain, or some kind of automatic regu-lating device. Two years ago the general manager of the MilwaukeeNorthern Railway, realizing the need of some means ofvoltage regulation for car-lighting, installed for trialthe Watson car regulator on one of its cars operatingin limited service between Sheboygan and Milwaukee,Wis. Later, when repairs and inspection made it neces-sary to take this car off the regular evening run, thecomplaints about poor lighting were so numerous andinsistent that the management had ample evidence ofthe publics appreciation of the better lighting affordedby the car with the trial equipment, and proceededgradually to equip all of the cars with the same was made of this type of regulator in theannual convention number of the Electric RailwayJournal of Sept. 30, 1916, page 612. In general this system of regulation comprises
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