Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1122
mo 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 circuit happens to be… … 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…
