Central station experiences, a series of narratives on the trials and tribulations of a steam engineer while learning to run an electric station; (1901)
New York, Power Publishing Co. · leaf 32
quite simple; but thats only the beginning. Theres ashort circuit in one of your field coils. The engineer stared in amazement. How do you know that? he asked. Jones grinned. That coil that ran so beautifully cool is eithercut out entirely or has a short circuit that cuts out most of it. Then the… … proceeded to uncouple from its mates. Then he attached to thehand plugs of his testing arrangement (Fig. i) the ends of alength of flexible cord leading to the low scale terminals of aportable voltmeter which he habitually carried, and placed thevoltmeter on the floor. Take the readings/ he said to…
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