Electrical installations of electric light, power, traction and industrial electrical machinery (1902)
Kennedy, Rankin, d. 1917 · Edinburgh T.C. & E.C. Jack · leaf 139
le of coupling up in two parallels and threeparallels to suit the speeds. The day has arrived when small alternators may be generallydiscarded. Continuous current is so easily obtained and suitablefor all purposes that engineers may not now give small alter-nators that attention they at one time… … Multipolar Alternators the first consideration, the saving in copper efiected by using 200or 250 volts would be nothing to speak of in a ship plant. For this purpose an alternator, self-exciting, coupled to a high-speedcompound engine, is a far hardier plant than the continuous currentplant in the…
Electrical engineering · Electric power
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