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A view of the interior of another Brook- lyn railway power house ; namely, that at Kent Avenue, is shown in Fig. 136. Here, instead of being placed on the floor beneath the generators and connected to the latter by belts, as in Fig. 135, the engines are mounted side by side with the generators and directly coupled to the armatures. There are four large generating units in the room of the type shown at 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Each generator has twelve magnet poles, between which revolves the... armature -4, with its commutator C, at a speed of 75 revolutions per minute. The armature is driven by a double engine E, JS. The engine is a double, horizontal, compound-condensing engine, the generator being placed between the two halves. F, F, is the engine fly-wheel placed on the main shaft, close to the armature. Each of these large generators has a w ii f Jd g w 292 ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAYS. capacity of 3, 000 amperes at a pressure of 550 volts, representing an activity at full load of 1, 650 KW, and a total output, when all are at full load, of 6, 600 KW, or 8, 800 HP, approximately.
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