Re: SLR - Extension construction

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier) wrote:

> But the simple cam-shaft controls on the old trams would be very tolerant
> of voltage fluctuations. Those coupled O's probably would have still run
> up those grades with 150v or more loss on the overhead.

In the normal course of events they accelerated briskly up the grades,
indicating they were not suffering from low voltage.

> They can't have the AC and lights dropping out on every tram on the extension
> each time one puts on a spurt of accelleration.

Do you have any evidence to support this somewhat fanciful theory?

> Ill try and get a closer look at the extension trolley wire and work out its
> diameter and then lookup the voltage drop characteristics for copper wire of
> that diameter.

At least that would be step in direction of something definitive,
rather than just your opinions.

Cheers,

Bill