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    A liquid rheostat or water rheostat or salt water rheostat is a type of variable resistor. This may be used as a dummy load or as a starting resistor for...
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    channels at a time. Early examples of a rheostat dimmer include a salt water dimmer, a kind of liquid rheostat; the liquid between a movable and fixed contact...
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    Salt water dimmers, which are an early example of liquid rheostats, were used in theatres after the introduction of electric stage lighting to control...
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  • resistance value within tolerance and facilitate inspection of the LNER. Liquid rheostat A.C. Franklin, D.P.Franklin et al (1983) The J&P Transformer Book 11th...
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  • the contaminated drop and grow a clean drop between each experiment. Liquid rheostat Rotating disk electrode Rotating ring-disk electrode Rotating-anode...
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    50,75 and 100 km/h) and intermediate speeds were obtained using a liquid rheostat. Final drive was through a Kandó triangle with one arm connected to...
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    central cab and a short bonnet at each end. One bonnet housed the liquid rheostat with its pump and evaporative cooling device. The electrical part consisted...
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    current limitation during starting and switching was obtained through a liquid rheostat containing a 2% solution of sodium carbonate in water as electrolyte...
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    up to 260,000 horsepower. Drive speed is currently controlled by a liquid rheostat system. The Transonic wind tunnel is a closed-return, variable density...
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    used to allow two or four different speeds, and resistances (often liquid rheostats) were required for starting. In Italy freight locomotives used plain...
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    from one speed to the next was done by an automatically controlled liquid rheostat containing sodium carbonate solution. Four fixed speeds were available...
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  • or cascade connection. Intermediate speeds were achieved by using a liquid rheostat, which allowed uniform acceleration when starting and when changing...
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  • Relay / Power Swing Blocking 69 - Permissive Control Device 70 - Rheostat 71 - Liquid Switch, Level Switch 72 - DC Circuit Breaker 73 - Load-Resistor Contactor...
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    supplied to the device, and hence the temperature achieved, is regulated by a rheostat. This type of heating mantle is quite useful for maintaining an intended...
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    resistor network – array of resistors in one package Variable resistor Rheostat – two-terminal variable resistor (often for high power) Potentiometer –...
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    changes in impeller/drum speed were achieved by mechanical means or by a rheostat on the motor power supply. However, since the 1970s electronic control...
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    speeds. The connections were enabled through a drum switch using a liquid-cooled rheostat. Feeding was provided by paired trolley poles at each end, each...
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    used on Class 88 locomotives for the rheostatic brake resistor grids, Class 93s will not be equipped with rheostatic braking. Instead, they will use regenerative...
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    the fuel tank could use the electrical resistance of a float-variable rheostat to measure the level of fuel, and was therefore not dependent upon the...
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    motor in 1889, of both types cage-rotor and wound rotor with a starting rheostat, and the three-limb transformer in 1890. After an agreement between AEG...
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  • JFET: Junction gate field-effect transistor LA: Lightning arrester LCD: Liquid crystal display LDR: Light-dependent resistor LED: Light-emitting diode...
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    schematic diagram symbols are as follows: ANSI-style: (a) resistor, (b) rheostat (variable resistor), and (c) potentiometer IEC resistor symbol The notation...
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    with electric current by connecting them to city lighting wires through a rheostat. 184 initiates had gone through the same ritual in the 15 years prior,...
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    23 - Improvements of condensers, transformers, self-induction coils, rheostats, and other similar devices; Used in areas where currents of high potentials...
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    notes varying resistance in carbon grains due to pressure, and builds a rheostat based on the principle but abandons it because of its sensitivity to vibration...
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    connected to a knob accessible to an operator. Such a device is called a rheostat and has two terminals. A potentiometer (colloquially, pot) is a three-terminal...
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    Commons has media related to Eddy current brakes. Dynamic braking - either rheostatic (dissipating the train's energy as heat in resistor banks within the train...
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    The crew was uncomfortable because of the cold, although the heater's rheostat was turned up, so D'Amario opened an engine bleed valve to draw additional...
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    system within the camera, the guide system consisting of a flip-up mirror, rheostat controlled illuminated crosshairs, and a focusing eyepiece. The crosshairs...
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  • had a rheostat to adjust the filament current, and often a potentiometer or multiposition switch to control the plate voltage. The filament rheostat was...
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