Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-29

Answer. mat Is LOO uluCl lOI me
1t might be one of number oil
things.
Question: If you take the &c am
pere lamp and change the coils to ia
without adjusting the other parts oil
the lamp, would that make it?
Answer: If the current is changed
it would not be readjusted to ia
ampere current. 1t would not need
REIMBURSEMENT. The shunt coil and
spring would do what was necessary
Question: In order TO change these
lamps there would be. no change en-
cept in the series coil?
Answer: That is all.
Question: You have never been in
town at night?
Answer: No, sir.
Question: How long were you in
town on the first of June?
Answer: Possibly ouple OF
hours in the afternoon. | don't re-
member how long exactly.
Question:: You say you inspected
this plant and the equipment. What
inspection did you make?
Answer: | made an inspection OF
the transformers, and Of the regula-
tors and of the lamp itself.
Question: You did not make any
examination or inspection of the
lamps on the street?
Answer: Not while it was on the
street. | examined a lamp in the
test room up there. | examined one
lamp.
Question: Mr.. Harlow asked you
after reading a clause of this COM
pany's contract with the city, if rs
ampere light would comply with the
of that contract, and you
answered granted the lights are OPP
Grated as rs ampere lights they do?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: You are assuming that
these lamps are operated at 1.5 am
peres?
Answer: Yes, sir. That would be
in any statement.
Question: You have never seen
the watt meters in operation, have
you?
Answer: No, sir. | might add that
the meter inspection would determine
nothing about the light
Question: Could you go to the
plant in the day time and examine
the meters and tell what they were
doing at night?
Answer: No, sir.
Question: You speak of TO am
pere lamps consuming $50 watts
Answer (interrupting) ] don't
think so. ! said any lamp consuming
450 watts was a nominal 1000 can
die power lamp.
Question: You don't know wheth-
er these lamps here on the streets are
properly adjusted?
Answer: ! have not made any in
spe o'nsIion: Assuming tnaI the ann
mere is ia, you can supply the teen
p ,i.a1-Lerm 10 suit yourself, give the
other amount that would be neces-
sary to make $50 watts.
Answer: 1t would be the product
of the 7I1h amperes into the volts
across the terminals of the lamp into
the power factor.
Question:: Ii there are " am
peres to obtain $50 watts, what would
have to be the voltage?
Answer: In order to produce that
result seventy-two volts.
Question: If it were operated at ~
volts what would be the results?
Answer: There would be a reduc
ton in the relative ratio.
Question: If it were operated a.
10 volts what would be the result?
Answer: The lamp would not oper
ate at 40 volts.
Question: Can you operate &C
ampere lamps on the same series
with rs ampere lamps?
Answer: Not satisfactorily. Yor
might be able TO adjust the lamp:
down in voltage and get them to oper
ate. The effect would be this If yol
put CO ampere lamps and 10 lamp:
on the same circuit the lamps would
draw too much voltage. The wattagt
would run way up. Whether you
could cut them down enough to oper
ate satisfactorily would depend OIL
the individual lamp.
Question: You say you saw thu
log sheet for two months?
Answer: Yes, for number o
months. For those months that
read off for you just now.
Question: When did you see that
Answer: Today.
Question: You state that Y
ampere lamp properly adjusted woult
consume $50 watts?
Answer: Adjusted with a termin
al voltage of IS volts, was it?
Question: And if not properly ad
justed it would not consume that?
Answer: 1t might consume NOR
or might consume less.
Question: You also stated assum
ing that the globes were in prope
state of cleanliness?
/. Answer: 1t is the same as dirt
window
Question: l understand you to sd
you examined one of the lamps @
this company. What lamp?
Answer: I could not say wha
lamp. 1t was lamp on their ties
rack UP there.
Question: Not one on the street
Answer: l was told it came off tn
street and was in there for adjust
ment.
Mr.. Spinks: Mr.. Hill asked abou
the lamps the other time.
Mr.. Hill: Did ! understand you I
say that there is at the present tim
a lamp on the market that woul
carry out the contract made by tn
Alexandria Electric Company wit
the city?
MIR. Belts: 1t depends on what 70
would
Mr.. Hill (interrupting) Can tn
Alexandria Electric Company have
lamp made that will carry out th
contract they made with the city?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr. Spinks: Now, | want to asl
could your company the Genera
Electric Company, make a 1000 cal
die power lamp?