. The Street railway journal . the station contains two400-kw rotary converters, with space for a third. From each generator the current is carrieddirectly to a bank of three 370-kw are of the oil-cooled type, built by the Wag-ner Electric Manufacturing Company. Thesetransformers step up from 375 volts to 27,000volts. SWITCHBOARD The switchboard was furnished and installedby the General Electric Company, and is of blackenameled slate, 7 ft. 6 ins. high, 40 ft. 4 ins. consists of twenty-four panels, and is of theusual standard construction, containing no radicaldepart
. The Street railway journal . the station contains two400-kw rotary converters, with space for a third. From each generator the current is carrieddirectly to a bank of three 370-kw are of the oil-cooled type, built by the Wag-ner Electric Manufacturing Company. Thesetransformers step up from 375 volts to 27,000volts. SWITCHBOARD The switchboard was furnished and installedby the General Electric Company, and is of blackenameled slate, 7 ft. 6 ins. high, 40 ft. 4 ins. consists of twenty-four panels, and is of theusual standard construction, containing no radicaldepartures. The indicating and recording instru-ments are connected through current and potentialtransformers, and no high-tension lines are con-nected to the switchboard. At the south end of the board, mounted on aswinging bracket, is a 750-volt illuminated dialvoltmeter, while at the other end, similarly mounted, is a dial synchronizer. A large synchronizer, havingan 18-in. dial, is mounted below the crane girder, in front of the.
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