. Motion picture electricity. , requiring a greateror less number of lamps, and the electric lighting com-pany has located its poles and wires on one side of thestreet. The section is intended to illustrate one or twobusiness blocks where considerable electric current wouldbe required. For the sake of simplicity I omit showing the highvoltage wires, illustrating only the secondary wires fromthe transformer or the low tension wires of a regular2-wire and 3-wire direct-current system. In the illustra-tion the transformer mounted on top of one of the polesreceives current from the high voltage sy
. Motion picture electricity. , requiring a greateror less number of lamps, and the electric lighting com-pany has located its poles and wires on one side of thestreet. The section is intended to illustrate one or twobusiness blocks where considerable electric current wouldbe required. For the sake of simplicity I omit showing the highvoltage wires, illustrating only the secondary wires fromthe transformer or the low tension wires of a regular2-wire and 3-wire direct-current system. In the illustra-tion the transformer mounted on top of one of the polesreceives current from the high voltage system over twosmall wires, and this transformer feeds 2-wire or 3-wiremain running along the street as illustrated. Supposethe electric light company gets a customer for store Aand they require only eight or ten 16-candle-power incan-descent lamps, which would require approximately 5 am-peres at no volts. In this case it would not be necessaryto bring all three wires into the building, so only two 60 MOTION PICTURE ELECTRICITY. STREET
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