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 48
^ must have swapped over the connections whenhe cleaned the terminals to-day. … The engineer touched the shunt field terminals with the plugs. So that the series coils were connected backward andweakened the field as the load increased ?Yes. Jones heard a mufifled imprecation in the receiver.That all? he asked. Yes—no. What caused the sparking?The weakness of the field.…
Electric power-plants
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