Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 1122
ely open the dynamo will fail to generate. In order to start generation a small wire may be at-tached to one of the terminals of the dynamo and the Operation of Dynamos 1087 other end brought in contact with the other terminal fora fraction of a second or the shortest possible instant. Ifthe… … Fig. 467 and the current will now force itself through the otherlamps. This process is known as jumping in and shouldbe used only in an emergency, as much damage may becaused, especially if a dynamo is already running a largenumber of lamps and is then jumped into a bad circuit.This is also often…
