Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. (1916)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 166
ure, thus increasing the capacity of the machine. The presence of generators in rooms where any hazardousprocess is carried on is not to be allowed and it should be remem-bered that sparks from generator brushes or rings may readily setfire to inflammable gases or to flyings of lint. Generators… … Fig. 19. Generator on Wood Base ably be mounted on wood bases (Fig. 19) which insulate the machineframe. Such insulation will prevent a failure of insulation in themachine windings from grounding the system. Such a groundmight cause a short circuit if the system became grounded at anotherpoint. If…
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