Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-26
BY p. M. sMooT ~. ..
MANAGER a. Smoo+ & Steinhauser, Ltd.

"Rnowing how" is the greatest
trouble-preyeniive To be found. +.
In operating the electric lighting and
starting system on your motor car,
there are certain things yeu should
know abrut II you want. to get the
most dependable performance from it.
Il would be folly to go into the tecn.
nical details OF your electrical system.
Put there are certain simple things
which every car owner will find IL
helpful to know. ~.
puttIra IL In Plain Language ...
Perhaps the best way to learn about
your electrical system is to see lust
what happens when you operate 1t.
From your place at the steering
wheel, You press a button. Immedi-
ately your storage battery becomes
alive, sending powerful current
plong the wires to the starting motor.
The hot spark inside the cylinders
explodes the mixture OF gas and air,
and your engine throbs with life.
AZ soon as the engine has started
II begins to turn the electric generator
which puts back into the battery the
current which the starting motor and
irritlon have taken out.
Thus we have ar endless chain
whose COMPONENT links must have
attention II they are to perform prop
erly.
Whist Starts the Starter?
TIE starting motor is probably the
one part Of your electric system which
requires least attention. 1t is moth.
ing more or less than an electric
meter. deriving its power from your
Storage battery. This mower is trans
mitted "a the engine. either by chain
or gear drive on the starting motor.
with automobile engineers, the
chief requisite of a starting motor is
that II must turn over the engine at
good rate of speed whether the en-
zine be hot or cold This is in order
10 protect the car owner against
Docr starting in cold weather
without a storage battery in good
condition. the starting motor is use
less Therefore. Il behooves every
car ownAf' to avoid starting troubles
bv kee-fng his battery in working
order all the time.
Where the Current 10 Made
All the time your engine is running,
II h driving the generator which SUD-
plies ycuri battery with current. The
freet difference In generators is the
emcunt Of current they deliver at
INHERENT car speeds.
The ideal generator is one. which
will keep The battery fully charged by
supplying II with plenty of energy at
slow driving speed. The high speed
alwavs produces enough and some
times too much
a generator. which charges at too
low rate at low car speed will starpe
vour battery and one which charges
ri too high rate at normal and
hiRh speeds. win oyerheat the battery
end cause considerable damage.
On some cars a single unit system
IS used insteed of the two unit as
0escr:bed herein. In the single unit
svetem the generator and starting
motor are one instrument. When the
battery furnishes power to charge the
hatterv, the same. aFmature revolves
et higher speed and generates cur
rent.
TIE Rraln Of Your System
Just IS the brain of a human be-
Ing controls his body, storage bat
terv is resronsibie for the action of
startsns end lighting system.
Your battery Is constantly chang
ire its form. AS it is called upon to
fupply currents for lights, starter or
jgnjtion chemical change goes on in
side. Likewise. when the battery re
ceives current from the generator, the
p'ates are CHANGED back to their for
iner condition and the battery returns
70 q charged state.
This process of give and take"
must be uniform. II starter and
lights consume more current than the