. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). ipes arefitted. The turbines are situated in a Shut-off valves are fitted on thesepipes, as shown in Fig. 19. The tur-bines themselves are substantially thesame as the larger units, but have twobearings only, as shown in Fig. control is obtained by shutter/ates, exactly as in the larger machine,and the gates are operated by oil-cyl-inders controlled by the governor, asbefore. One of the exciter governors isshown in Fig. 18. As will be seen inFig. 14, and in some of the other fig-ures, fly-wheels have been adopted onthese small
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). ipes arefitted. The turbines are situated in a Shut-off valves are fitted on thesepipes, as shown in Fig. 19. The tur-bines themselves are substantially thesame as the larger units, but have twobearings only, as shown in Fig. control is obtained by shutter/ates, exactly as in the larger machine,and the gates are operated by oil-cyl-inders controlled by the governor, asbefore. One of the exciter governors isshown in Fig. 18. As will be seen inFig. 14, and in some of the other fig-ures, fly-wheels have been adopted onthese small turbines, owing to the in-sufficient fly-wheel effect of the exciterarmatures to which they are coupled. Alternator alternators, as before stated,were supplied by Messrs. Vickers, Lim-ited, of River Don Works, are of the firms standard horiz-ontal-shaft rotating-field type, andhave each an output of 3,000 kw., or 3,-750 at power-factor. Theygive 6,000 volts and 00 cycles at 164 fl ra] t jbl^ wmf*&&&»J. FIG. 19. VIEW OF EXCITERS. FIG. 10. VIEWOF ALTKUXAIi >I! IX BUILDERS WORKS. given in Figs. 14 to 16, and a general special bay, built between two of the revolutions per minute. The specifica-View in Fig. 19. As will be seen from main wheel-pits, and the supply-pipes tion for the alternators called for a
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