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 56
es sparking? Exactly. A Sparking Motor — Motor Wiring. 49 It will run above speed until the load becomes too great forit to pull at the higher speed. Try it. The motor was turned on. With no load it ran at a high rateof speed. With two cofifee grinders connected up it slackeddown considerably and… … I dont see anything to laugh at. When this was done the motor ran smoothly and without aspark, but the speed slacked greatly when the load was increased. Connect up the voltmeter and read it at no load and full load. The engineer did so. No load 229 volts; full load 213, he reported. Wires toosmall…
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