Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 474
,renders it unsuitable to permit of good work at the low voltagesused on electric road vehicles. For this reason copper gauzebrushes still have their advocates, who claim superiority, from thefacts that lower resistance may be thus attained; also that, whenproperly constructed, they may be… … Fig. 344.—General Electric Motor, Designed for Heavy Vehicle Use, withsingle or double reduction. Capacity, 30 amperes at 85 volts; 800 R. P. M.at full load. the disadvantages of both carbon and copper, and, to secure thegood results to be found in either case, the practice of using acombination…
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