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ly more on some occa-sions; but this amount is required during only a short 34 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 21 period, and some of the plant must remain idle or workinefficiently for a greater part of the 24 hours. The averagecurrent is about 1,276 amperes, and a line drawn throughthis point indicates the… … an equalization of the load thus effected. The storage bat-tery can do this. If it were installed in such a station, thedynamos would be called on to deliver only about one-halfof the current, 1,300 amperes instead of 2,700 amperes, andwould therefore have to be but one-half the size; the…
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