. The Street railway journal . ting direct current atvariable voltage, and is being applied for this purpose. A third type of converter, and one for which many claimsare made in connection with its advantageous character-istics when used to deliver constant potential direct-current when the supply is high-frequency, high-voltage alternatingcurrent, is being built by Bruce Peebles & Co., of Londonand Edinburgh. This machine has been introduced on alarge scale for electric railway work in Great Britain, whereit is stated that there are now more than four times as greatcapacity in use for 50-cycl
. The Street railway journal . ting direct current atvariable voltage, and is being applied for this purpose. A third type of converter, and one for which many claimsare made in connection with its advantageous character-istics when used to deliver constant potential direct-current when the supply is high-frequency, high-voltage alternatingcurrent, is being built by Bruce Peebles & Co., of Londonand Edinburgh. This machine has been introduced on alarge scale for electric railway work in Great Britain, whereit is stated that there are now more than four times as greatcapacity in use for 50-cycle current as there are rotaryconverters, although the latter have been available for atleast four times as long. The cascade converter, or themotor converter, as this rectifier is called in England,consists of two machine structures whose revolving partsare mounted on the same shaft. The input machine resem-bles in every respect an induction motor with a coil-wound(rotor) secondary; the output machine is exactly similar to. RDTOR WINDINGS OF MOTOR CONVERTER a rotary converter, and it receives its current from thesecondary winding of the input induction motor at a fre-quency much reduced from that impressed upon the primarywinding. For simplicity in explanation it may be assumed that themotor and the converter have the same number of induction motor rotates at a speed corresponding tohalf frequency; half of the electrical power supplied to theinduction motor will be converted into mechanical powerand transmitted by means of the shaft to the converter,while the other half is transferred to the secondary (rotor)windings and thereby to the converter armature in the formof electrical power. Thus the induction motor operates halfas motor and half as transformer, while the converter oper-ates half as direct-current generator and half as rotaryconverter. The rating of the induction motor is theoretically half aslarge as it would be if it were to convert the whole of theelectr
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