. Electric railway journal . -Amotors. Hess-Bright balljournal bearings are usedon the trucks as are alsoWoods side bearings. Thelatter contain three rollerseach, the rollers, however,coming into action onlywhen the car is rounding acurve. A new type of controllerknown as the K-12-Gforms part of the equip-ment of the new cars and twenty-five of the older carsare also being remodeled to embody the essential fea-ture of this controller. This feature is the useof an auxiliary contactor and relay which entirelyremoves the arcing from the controller segments. Awiring diagram is reproduced herewith,
. Electric railway journal . -Amotors. Hess-Bright balljournal bearings are usedon the trucks as are alsoWoods side bearings. Thelatter contain three rollerseach, the rollers, however,coming into action onlywhen the car is rounding acurve. A new type of controllerknown as the K-12-Gforms part of the equip-ment of the new cars and twenty-five of the older carsare also being remodeled to embody the essential fea-ture of this controller. This feature is the useof an auxiliary contactor and relay which entirelyremoves the arcing from the controller segments. Awiring diagram is reproduced herewith, to show the de-tails, together with photographs of the contactor andrelay. From the former, it will be seen that there is atthe bottom of the controller drum a ratchet switch, thefunction of which is to close the contactor when the con-troller handle is being turned in the on direction andto open the contactor whenever the direction of rotationof the handle is reversed. The name ratchet switch INTERIOR VIEW, LOOKINGENTRANCE. NEW ROCHESTER CAR—WIRING DIAGRAMS, SHOWING RATCHET NEW ROCHESTER CAR—DETAILS OF FRONT VESTIBULE EQUIP-SWITCH AND CONTACTOR FOR REMOVING ARCING MENT LAYOUT AND ARRANGEMENT OF ENTRANCE FROM CONTROLLER RAILINGS 1236 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL I Vol. XLVIII, No. 25
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