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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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FIG. 28.—SWITCH FOR ST/VRTING synchronism. The rheostat is of the liquid type, with the elec-trolyte forced in and out by compressed air. It consists of acast-iron box with cooling flanges, into which are hung threegroups of sheet-iron plates with indented lower edges. The FIG. 29,—STARTING RHEOSTAT his main switch and admitting the electrolyte until the carreaches full speed. The method of regulating the speed, aswill be seen, is in many particulars similar to the series parallel-connection of continuous-current motors. When starting the
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FIG. SO.-TIIREE rn.\SE LOCO:\IOTTVE May 30, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 797 iiiotornian watclies tlie ammeters and voltmeters, mounted closein front of him, and accordingly regulates the speed of thestarting with the throttle valve. The sw^itch-lever and air-cockof the starting device are mechanically so dependent upon oneanother that it will not l)e possible to operate the handles of the four axles is provided with a high-tension motor of150-hp capacity, of construction and coupling identical to thoseof the motor car, except that the locomotive is designed for onespeed only. The motors, according to the variations of thetractive effort, as observed on the ammeter, may individually 1 D

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