Nothing of importance has been omitted that the reader should know about the practical operation and care of storage batteries.
Great advances have been made within the last few years, and I propose now to offer a few facts and figures relating to the present state of the subject with reference to the application of storage batteries to locomotive purposes.
The second, more formidable, objection relates to the weight of storage batteries--and this involves two disadvantages, viz.
In a third class the arrangement is more complicated, as it involves the use of storage batteries as an auxiliary to the power provided directly by the petrol engine.
Although the electric cab has the advantage of being a smaller vehicle and therefore more adapted to economical propulsion by storage batteries, the conditions of the cab service are not at all favourable to the system.
Some wonderful pictures have been published of large vessels with tons of ballast in the form of storage batteries.
Storage batteries are put in a convenient place, depending upon the design of the carriage, and from these the motors receive the current.
The Uses of Storage Batteries= are almost numberless.
Secondary or Storage Batteries=, also called accumulators, do not really store electricity.
As before mentioned, either dry or storage batteries may be used as a source of current.
It has a speed of from 2-1/2 to 3 miles an hour when equipped with dry batteries or storage batteries.
Electricity must be consumed the instant it is generated (except in rare instances where small amounts are accumulated in storage batteries by a chemical process).
Shunt dynamos are used for charging storage batteries, and are satisfactory for direct service only when an attendant is constantly at hand to regulate them.
These relays are used~ to protect dynamos, storage batteries, or main station busses from damage on reversal of current due to short circuit, or from the grounding of machines or connection.
It will not work for the protection of storage batteries or of motor generator sets charging storage batteries, as, when the voltage of the generator fails, the voltage of the battery still maintains its full value.
This is due to the fact that the life of even the best of storage batteries is not as great as the life of the average switchboard equipment.
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