Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street Railway Association (1897)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Chicago : Office of the Association · leaf 90
84 Sixteenth Annual Meeting. In ordinary operation the current on cable No. 3 passes through the booster at the power house, by which the initial pressure is raised 150 volts, more or less, above the ordinary bus-bar pressure of 550 volts (see Fig. 7.) By this means the drop in the cable is… … FIG. 6.— VOLT-METER CHART FROM BATTERY HOUSE AFTER THE BATTERY WAS INSTALLED. it charges and discharges continually, maintaining the load on cable No. 3 nearly constant, and consequently maintaining a constant e. m. f., where the current passes out from the battery house through cable No. 4, as…
Electric railroads · Street-railroads · Transportation · Urban transportation
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