. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1921 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 309 to get the correct amount of "resist- ance" in the circuit to meet the vary- ing conditions. Perhaps if you use No. 26 wire, as I do, some friend may bring in 10 or 20 frames wired with No. 30 wire and ask you to set them. Then your resistance is again all up- set, because the electrical capacity of the No. 26 wire is about six times as great as the No. 30 wire of the same length. Small "transformers" are a great improvement over flatirons, etc., but a transformer that will give a delicate control of t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1921 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 309 to get the correct amount of "resist- ance" in the circuit to meet the vary- ing conditions. Perhaps if you use No. 26 wire, as I do, some friend may bring in 10 or 20 frames wired with No. 30 wire and ask you to set them. Then your resistance is again all up- set, because the electrical capacity of the No. 26 wire is about six times as great as the No. 30 wire of the same length. Small "transformers" are a great improvement over flatirons, etc., but a transformer that will give a delicate control of the current to meet the above conditions would cost a "pretty penny," so only a few would benefit by it. Electricity is usually delivered to the consumer as a current of 110 volts, 30 or 60 amperes and 60 cycle, alternating; some have a constant current; it makes no difference in the application of my method what kind of strength of current you have, as long as you have it. All methods of controlling the cur- rent I have seen, try to do so by re- ducing the voltage, seemingly forget- ting that a current is made up of other components besides its "; All currents have also "volume," or amperage. Now, within certain lim- its, and we are well within those lim- its, with the currents and wires we are discussing, a small wire will "ac- cept" a current of small voltage and large amperage, or one of large voltage and small amperage, without heating, but not a current of large voltage and large amperage. Instead of trying to vary the volt- age in our small wire let us turn to the amperes and let the volts alone. A piece of No. 30 wire 18 inches long will carry a current of 110 volts and one-half ampere without heating, but a current of 110 volts and 1 ampere will heat it considerably. So let us see if we can in any way apply this principle to our use. Take 6 open work porcelain recep- tacles and 5 32 candle power carbon lamps and 1 16 candle
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