. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10.—SHIPPING DEPARTMENT, SHOWING GENERATORS UNDER TEST cross connecting rings inside the box-shaped casting of the rocker,so that they are not visible from the front of the machine. The company has provided two large testing pits near theshipping department (Fig. lo), where these large machines areerected and submitted to the severest possible test. They are rise and high efticienc} which they show. A 400-kw machinewhich was tested a few days since, after running for ten hoursat full load, was made to carry 50 per cent overload for two hoursand only showed a
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10.—SHIPPING DEPARTMENT, SHOWING GENERATORS UNDER TEST cross connecting rings inside the box-shaped casting of the rocker,so that they are not visible from the front of the machine. The company has provided two large testing pits near theshipping department (Fig. lo), where these large machines areerected and submitted to the severest possible test. They are rise and high efticienc} which they show. A 400-kw machinewhich was tested a few days since, after running for ten hoursat full load, was made to carry 50 per cent overload for two hoursand only showed a rise in temperature of 57 degs. F. above thesurrounding air, as illustrated by the accompanying temperature 502 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 14. 60— Temperature lise aftev lu hours run at full load and2 hours- with 50 per centoverload. —g- Full LoadTcmocraturc Curve 30 a-0 JO Direct Current GeneratorPoles 90 Rev. 400 550 Volts 30— 10-7 - { t Duration ii 1 1 0 t-111 nirs2 1 } 1 6 in the demand for power
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