A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 485
ll passthrough the galvanome-ter, it is necessary thatthe resistances of theshunt shall be the \, g1^,or -g-i-^, of the galvanom-eter resistance. Fig. 502 shows ashunt, in which the re-sistances, as comparedwith that of the galva-nometer, are those abovereferred to. The galva-nometer terminals… … Fig. so 2. GalvanometerShunt. netic circuit for the passage of the lines o£force.Shunt, Multiplying Power of —a. quantity, by which the current flowing througha galvanometer provided with a shunt, mustbe multiplied, in order to give the total cur-rent. The multiplying power of a shunt may be…
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