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 91
Jones executed a triumphal descent from the ladder. 84 Central Station Experiences. Yes. Well; now, in order to avoid using pilot wires from the centerof distribution back to the station voltmeter, this compensator isused. The engineer nodded. The voltmeter solenoid has two coils; the main coil is… … The compensator is a transformer with an adjustable primarywinding in series with the main line and an adjustable secondarywhich is connected with the auxiliary coil on the voltmeter. How is the winding adjustable? Jones sketched Fig. 2. Each winding has a lot of taps, so that the number of turns…
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