Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1102
of the field, for the reason thatthe current in the shunt coil is independent of the speedof the dynamo, and the shunt coils continue to excite thefield to a certain extent, and this excitation is never re-duced to zero until the connection with the bus bar, or mainconnection is broken. This is a… … FiG. 460 SEPARATE-CIRCUIT DYNAMO fore the armature begins to revolve. The capacity of theshunt coil is considerable, and it cannot with safety be dis-connected by a simple opening of a switch. A bank oflamps is generally mounted in series with it, and the fieldbreak switch is placed between the…
