International Library of Technology · Scranton, International Textbook Co. · leaf 453
m-vitaeblocks, where it is smothered out. A lightning arresterused on street-railway service is used under especially severeconditions, because every discharge to ground gives rise toa short circuit, since one side of the system is grounded.The arresters should be inspected from time to time to… … Fig. 27. wires a, a pass through the bottom and connect to the ter-minals, which are clamped between the blocks b, b. Theseterminals are separated a short distance, and the spacebetween them is bridged over by a number of charred §35 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 31 grooves, across which the discharge leaps.…
Electrical engineering
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