Electrical news and engineering . ase in the quantity of water to be handled as the vastamount of drift wood which accompanies it. Kntire lirtrees, measuring in some cases up to fifty feet in length,which have been uprooted and brought down with theflood, require to be disposed of before any serious jamhas been albwcd to form. No. 1 Power House The equiijment at No 1 power house consists of Wellman Scaver Morgan turbines, coupled totwo 4,000 , 12,000 volt, 3-phase generators: two 3,; Boving turbines, coupled to two 2,500 12,000volt 3-phase generators, and t
Electrical news and engineering . ase in the quantity of water to be handled as the vastamount of drift wood which accompanies it. Kntire lirtrees, measuring in some cases up to fifty feet in length,which have been uprooted and brought down with theflood, require to be disposed of before any serious jamhas been albwcd to form. No. 1 Power House The equiijment at No 1 power house consists of Wellman Scaver Morgan turbines, coupled totwo 4,000 , 12,000 volt, 3-phase generators: two 3,; Boving turbines, coupled to two 2,500 12,000volt 3-phase generators, and two water-driven and one mo-tor-generator exciter, any of these exciters being capable ofsupplying all four generators. The operating head of theturbines is TO feet. The transformers consist of four 3,000 to55,000 volt, transformers, the transmitting voltageto the companys terminal station in Calgary being 55,\11 the switching equipment at Xo. 1 plant, including the Water Power in the Calgary District j. THE ELECTRICAL NEWS remote control desk, is of Canadian W estiiigliousc Com-pany manufacture. No. 2 Power House The dam at No. 2 plant is of solid concrete, and isprovided with inspection tunnels, but it dififers from No. 1dam in that flood water is controlled wholly by means ofstop logs, which are handled by an electrically drivenwinch. The discharge capacity with all stop logs removed,and water at normal operating level, is computed at 46, The water is led to the gate house by means of a / ^ ^ — 10 V ^j 000 / -J ^ / Bow Ri. at Ho Falls, June 1915 the itrol to the canal, excavated from solid rock, whiturbines is through Tainter type gates. The power house equipment consists of two verticalunits of 5,800 each, manufactured by the CanadianAllis-Chalmers Company; two 13,000 volt generators ofSwedish General Electric Company make, and one motor-driven and one water-driven exciter. The switchboard andswitches are of Canadian
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