Re: Engine Voltage

["Deano" <dsma@pigpond.com>]

Which gets back to my original question, if it is say 1000 amps total at 600
volts as suggested then that would represent an engine of 600kw which is way
too small for the rated capacity of the engine. For an 81 to be approx
2400kw when a total of 1200 amps is in use the applied voltage must be 2000,
if the applied voltage is actually 600 then the figure of 1200 amps total is
approx a quarter of what  would have expected.

"Donald R Smith" <drsmith@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> Even though the ammeter is connected across one of the three series
parallel
> circuits the ammeter scale is calibrated to read the total load.  That is
> the scale is adjusted to read the three or six times accordingly.
> Don
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