. The Street railway journal . street RuUu-<i,j .Tjumal FIG. -BOOSTERS ■ 1 G. ■)T H B A J- T E R1 ]•: S (1NRAILWAY SYSTEM FIG. BATTERIES ONLIGHTING SYSTEM Electric Railway & Light Company operates the street railwaysin Milwaukee and furnishes the electric light service. It hasan Edison 3-wire direct-current network for the downtowndistrict. The use of the same batteries for railway or lighting involvesa little more complication in switching but aftords a reserve foreither railway or lighting plants. These advantages have. FIG. FOR BATTERIES Company, foresaw the
. The Street railway journal . street RuUu-<i,j .Tjumal FIG. -BOOSTERS ■ 1 G. ■)T H B A J- T E R1 ]•: S (1NRAILWAY SYSTEM FIG. BATTERIES ONLIGHTING SYSTEM Electric Railway & Light Company operates the street railwaysin Milwaukee and furnishes the electric light service. It hasan Edison 3-wire direct-current network for the downtowndistrict. The use of the same batteries for railway or lighting involvesa little more complication in switching but aftords a reserve foreither railway or lighting plants. These advantages have. FIG. FOR BATTERIES Company, foresaw the advantage and flexibility of a battery soconnected as to be used on either railway or lighting circuits,and although this has not been the standard practice he insistedthat this battery plant should be so arranged that it would bea reserve at all times, to be connected to either the railway orlighting loads. As said before, the wisdom of this decision hasalready been demonstrated. This battery, which was furnished and installed by theElectric Storage Battery Company, consists in all of 608 are grouped in various combinations, according to theuses to which they are being put. What will be designatedas the railway battery in this article, because it is usually oper-ated on the railway load, consists of 288 cellsconnected across the railway bus-bars in serieswith a special booster, as seen in Fig. i. The battery ordinarily placed on the lightingload has its connections indicated in Fig. 2. Inthis battery there are 320 cel
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