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


things.
Question: If you take the &C. am
pere lamp and change the coils to rs
without adjusting the other parts OF
the lamp, would that make it?
Answer: If the current is changed
it would not be readjusted to rs
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 ex-
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 a ouple of
hours in the afternoon. | don't re-
member how long exactly.
Question: You say you inspected
this plant and the equipment. What
did you make?
Answer: l 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
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 10 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. I 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 rs am
pere lamps consuming $50 watts
Answer (interrupting) / don t
think so. ] said any lamp consuming
$50 watts was a nominal 1000 can
die power lamp.
Question: You don't know wheth-
er these lamps here on the streets are
adjusted?
Answer: / have not made any in
7p9 ASTON: Assuming tnar the ann
nere Is ia, you can supply the teen
g.,i,-ssf Term 10 suit yourself, give the
other amount that would be neces-
sary to make $50 watts.
Answer: It would be the product
of the ~ amperes into the volts
across Tie terminals of the lamp into
the power factor.
Question: If there are z u am
Deres 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 40
volts what would be the results?
Answer: There would be a reduc-
ton in the relative ratio.
Question: If it were operated at
40 volts what would be the result?
Answer: The lamp would not oper-
ate at 40 volts.
Question: Can you operate sc
L.
with rs ampere lamps?
Answer: Not satisfactorily. You
might be able to adjust the lamps
down in voltage and get them to oper-
ate. The effect would be this If you
put &C ampere lamps and 7.5 lamps
on the same circuit the lamps would
draw too much voltage. The wattage
would run way up. Whether you
could cut them down enough to oper-
ate satisfactorily would depend or
the individual lamp.
Question:: You say you saw the
log sheet for two months?
Answer: Yes, for a number Of
months. For those months that
read off for you just now.
Question: When die you see that
Answer: Today.
Question: You state that a Y
ampere lamp properly adjusted would
consume $50 watts?
Answer: Adjusted with a termin
al voltage of rs volts, was it?
Question: And if not properly ad
justed it would not consume that?
Answer: 1t might consume more
or might consume less.
Question: You also stated assum
ing that the globes were in a prope
state of cleanliness?
Answer: 1t is the same as a dirt.
window.
Question: | understand you to sa.
you examined one of the lamps o
this company. What lamp?
Answer: / could not say wha
lamp. 1t was a lamp on their ties
rack up there.
Question: Not one on the street
Answer: | 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 L
say that there is at the present tim
a lamp on the market that woui
carry out the contract made by tn
Alexandria Electric Company wit
the city?
Mr.. Belts: 1t depends on what 20
would
Mr.. Hill (interrupting): Can tn
Alexandria Electric Company have
lamp made that will carry out tn
contract they made with the city?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr.. Spinks: Now, want to ash
could your company the Genera
Electric Company, make a 1000 car