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 78
t o the car, fairly loaded, gives us five thousandsix hundred n six watts of power, on a nine per cent grade atfour miles an hour, dont it? Harvey admitted that it did. Now, with twenty-five amperes in the motors each onell de-velop six thousand four hundred n seventy watts at a hundredrevolutions… … Harvey stood beside the engineer and looked over the test sheet. Then the two motorsll develop about five thousand one hun-dred n seventy-six watts.Harvey nodded assent. 72 Central Station Experiences. Jones says the iron losses and gear friction dont get muchlower than fifteen hundred watts, and…
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