The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-09

devices operated by air, by gas. and
| by springs were tried out but the
Delco system seemed to be by far the
most positive and efficient OF any of
the other systems. Therefore the
| Cadillac Company after all of it's in.
yestigGtions, experimenting and lest
ing adopted this system The fact
that it is offered by the Cadillac com
pany which has always held steadfast
ly to the highest ideals, is ample evil
dence that Cadillac users have no dis
appointments in store.
The plant consists of a compact and
powerful dynamo located alongside
and operated By the engine, the dyna-
mo charging a storage battery.
For starting, the dynamo is tenn
porarily and automatically transform.
] ed into q motor, the current to operate
it as a motor being furnished by the
storage battery.
To start the engine, the operator
simply presses a button and pushes
| forward on the clutch pedal. This auto
matically engages a gear of the electric
! motor with gear teeth In the hywheel.
causing the latter to turn over" As
! soon as the engine commences to run
| on its own power, the operator releas-
es the pressure on the clutch pedal,
the electric motor gear disengages its
connection with the fly wheel, and the
car is ready to be driven, The electric
! motor then again becomes a dynamo,
or generator, and its energy is devot-
ed to ignition and to charging the
storage battery.
The storage battery has a capacity
of eighty ampere' hours, as soon as
that capacity is reached the charging
automatically ceases
! Practical tests have shown that the
storage battery is of sufficient capacity
to operate the starting device and turn
over the engine about twenty min
utes, although it seldom requires more
than second or two. In fact the
Cadillac engine so frequently starts
by the spark that the use of the cleo.
tricel starter is not always required
The car is equipped with two es-
pecially designed Gray & Davis cleo
trio head lamps, in which the position
of the bulbs is adjusted to focus the
light rays. There are two side lamps,
tail lamp and speedometer lamp. There
is also a plug to attach a handy lamp.
The bulbs are. of special design with
filaments so constructed that the pro
liability of breakage is reduced to- a
minimum. The current for lighting ia
supplied from the storage battery,
whose charge is maintained by the
dynamo
The lighting of the lamps is a mat
ter Of simply pressing the buttons, the
advantage and convenience of which
will be quickly appreciated by the
motorist who he's attempted to light
the ordinary lamps and found himself
without a match, or suffered the an
noyance of having to get out in the
wind rain or mud to light up.
The dynamo also generates current
ignition. Up to 2SO to 300 R. P. NJ
the ignition current comes from the
dynamo through the high tension dis
tributor to the spark plugs. For igni-
ton purposes the dynamo performs
not only all the functions of the most
highly developed magnetic, but possess
es even greater efficiency, having more
heXibility and greater range of action
When compelled to drive slowly in
crowded thoroughfares, over very bad
roads or on hills with the ordinary
magnetic, the driver may stall his
motor because the magnetic is not be-
ing driven fast enough to generate
current, and it becomes necessary to
switch to the battery--if he has one,
With the Cadillac system, if it be-
comes necessary to drive so slowly that
sufficient current should not be gener-
ated, the battery automatically cuts
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dynamo again automatically takes
hold. 1t wholly obviates the necessity
of the drivers keeping constantly on
the alert to prevent stalling the en-
CINE.
In addition to the ignition before
described, the Cadillac is provided with
the auxiliary Delco system with dry
cell current, which has proven so salts.
factory in the past The extra system
IS separate and distinct, with its own
set of spark plugs and in itself is thor
oughly efficient for running the car,
entirely Independent of the main sys-
tenn
The entire electrical plant has been
designed with view to cOmpactness
and efficiency. 1t is designed with the
idea of simplicity and positiveness. 1t
is designed to obviate to the greatest
possible degree the necessity of atten-
ton. Above all, it does what it is
designed to do.