A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 457
bythe solenoid coils of the controller, traversed bythe main current. The cores of this solenoid aresuspended by a spring. When the current be-comes too strong, the contact point is opened,and the current, traversing the coil of the regu-lar magnet A, attracts its armature, which shiftsthe… … Fig. 474. ThomsonHouston Regulator. In operation the contact points are continuallyopening and closing, thus maintaining a practi-cally constant current in the external circuit. (3.) By the Automatic Variation of a Resist-ance shunting the field magnets of the machine,as in the Brush system. In…
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