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Example sentences for "shunt"

Lexicographically close words:
shune; shunne; shunned; shunning; shuns; shunted; shunting; shunts; shure; shust
  1. The opportunity was taken to shunt several of the carriages on to a siding.

  2. Be so good as to wire down the line to shunt all traffic.

  3. The relay is acted upon directly by the potential of the dynamo, and the variable resistance is included in the shunt field of the machine, so that changes in the potential, resulting from changes in load or speed, are compensated for.

  4. The resistance, R1, serves to vary the intensity of the shunt field of the dynamo, the volts being indicated by the voltmeter V1, and a resistance separate from the switch board is inserted in the main circuit of the two machines.

  5. Didn't I tell you I would shunt if you didn't want me?

  6. SHUNT was at once the most audacious and the most contemptible.

  7. SHUNT leaped upon the table, and, taking a sight at the Chair, moved as an amendment, that the report be pitched out of window, and the Directors after it.

  8. I'll shunt him on the siding so quick he won't know he's ever been on the main track.

  9. Edison, is a combination of the series and shunt windings.

  10. The "external characteristic" for a shunt machine has an entirely different shape.

  11. A motor in which the speed is either constant or does not materially vary; such as synchronous motors, induction motors with small slip, and ordinary direct current shunt motors.

  12. Owing to the many turns of the field winding there is large inductance in the shunt field circuit.

  13. Booster sets are constructed in either series or shunt wound types and they may be arranged for either automatic or hand regulation, depending on the nature of the service required.

  14. An adjustable shunt to the series field is provided with each machine.

  15. A main shunt winding is arranged on the large sections, and a winding for providing the voltage regulation is placed on the other section.

  16. The shunt windings are of insulated copper strap or wire.

  17. This is a combination of the compensated shunt induction motor with the ordinary squirrel cage form.

  18. The simple shunt motor has inherently many properties which render it unsuitable for practical use, and accordingly is of little importance.

  19. The brush holders are of the standard sliding shunt type.

  20. Shunt 1/2 to 2 megohm grid leak resistance around the fixed condenser and then connect the second post of the variable condenser to one terminal of the detector tube filament.

  21. This done shunt the potentiometer around the A battery and run a wire from the movable contact of it (the potentiometer) over to the 18 volt tap, (see B, Fig.

  22. Next connect one end of the grid condenser to the post of the tuning coil that makes connection with the microphone and the other end to the grid of the tube, and then shunt the grid leak around the condenser.

  23. Connect the telegraph key, the buzzer and the dry cell in series and then shunt them around the grid condenser.

  24. Then shunt the headphones around the condenser.

  25. The shunt winding is therefore used where the voltage (or pressure) must be constant.

  26. If only I'd not gone off on that shunt to India--And they six weeks in these damnable swamps--if they won ashore at all!

  27. Shunt your collar- buttoner, and come on.

  28. Shunt the ladder round to the far side, sir," he called.

  29. Shunt it round, then tie the rope and go ahead.

  30. But some of us rather thought there'd be trouble when your paw dammed up the river to shunt some of it through the old water course over to Buffalo Wallow.

  31. And in this work the men distinguished easily the new white blaze-marks on Heinzman's logs; so they were able without hesitation to shunt them one side into the smoother water, as Orde had commanded.

  32. When shut it would close the main channel and shunt into the booms the logs floating in the river.

  33. In this time he succeeded by the severest efforts in establishing a rough shunt into the new channel.

  34. In these 5,000 horse-power open-air switches a shunt of high resistance was so connected between each pair of contacts that the blades and jaws that carried the main body of the current never completely opened the circuit.

  35. This throws the entire current of the arc through the series air-gaps and the shunt and series resistance all in series with each other.

  36. One-half of the total number of air-gaps in this arrester are shunted by the shunt resistance and the series and shunt resistance are in series with each other.

  37. Why not throw the shunted air-gaps away and combine the shunt and series resistances?

  38. When the main jaws of one of these switches were opened the shunt resistance continued in circuit until subsequently broken at auxiliary terminals.

  39. To reduce the strains produced on the insulation of line and connected apparatus under these conditions by lightning discharges, a resistance is connected in shunt with a part of the air-gaps in one make of lightning arrester.

  40. As the shunt resistance is comparatively large, the current maintaining the arc in the series air-gaps is next so reduced that this arc is broken.

  41. An arc is next started in the shunted air-gaps, and this arc is in turn destroyed because the shunt weakens the current in these gaps.

  42. Only the series air-gaps or those that are not shunted must be jumped in the first instance by the lightning discharge, which thus passes to earth through these air-gaps and the shunt and series resistance in series.

  43. Evidently the greatest strain on the insulation of the line and apparatus occurs at the instant when the lightning discharge takes place through the series gaps and the shunt and series resistances all in series with each other.

  44. So, if you've no objection, we'll shunt him for good and all!

  45. I stand between you already, and while I live you won't shunt me.

  46. Why should I shunt him, as you call it, for no reason at all?

  47. If I were you I should shunt as soon as possible," he said.

  48. L is an incandescent lamp in the shunt circuit.

  49. The motor is of such a size that when supplied with a continuous current of proper strength the induced electrical effect in the shunt circuit will light one incandescent lamp.

  50. In shunt and compound dynamos there is a certain critical speed below which they will not excite.

  51. If a plant be shut down with the motor switches "in" it will generally be found impossible to start a shunt dynamo, the low resistance in the mains not allowing enough current to flow around the shunt fields to energize them.

  52. Cutler-Hammer compound speed regulator with no voltage and overload release; regulation by combined armature and shunt field resistance, designed to both decrease and increase the speed of a motor.

  53. It is not practicable to run a compound dynamo and a shunt dynamo in parallel, for, unless the field rheostat of the shunt machine be adjusted continually, the compound dynamo will take more than its share of the load.

  54. The ends of the shunt coils may be connected to the terminals of their respective machine, or they may be connected in series as shown.

  55. Regulation by combined armature and shunt field resistance is by far the easiest way of obtaining a wide range of speeds.

  56. How can shunt motors be controlled from a distant point?

  57. The machine will operate when the connections are arranged in this manner, if the ends of the shunt coils be connected to the terminals of their respective machines.

  58. In many cases, a special shunt can be dispensed with and a short section of the mains on the switchboard, or the mains leading from the dynamo, can be used instead.

  59. The degree in which a shunt increases the range of deflection of a galvanometer is called its "multiplying power.

  60. The load is first reduced to a few amperes, as in the case of shunt dynamos, either by easing down the engine, or by cutting resistance into the shunt circuit by means of the hand regulator, and then opening the switch.

  61. The instrument employed is a double shunt differential galvanometer, a diagram of which is shown at Fig.

  62. First determine the resistance of the standard and of the other cells to be measured; then insert the shunt plugs at A and D, Fig.

  63. Should the shunt box be required, it has to be connected with terminals II.

  64. The current will now flow through one half of the galvanometer circuit only, being, however, reduced to 1/100 of its amount by the shunt D; the deflection of the needle must be carefully read.

  65. The comparative electromotive force of a battery may be determined by means of a double shunt differential galvanometer in the following method, as recommended by Mr. Latimer Clark.

  66. Latimer Clark's double shunt differential galvanometer is the instrument best adapted for submarine mine tests.

  67. B) Wet the ends of two fingers of the left hand, press one upon L and the other on R, thus making a shunt with your hand.

  68. As shown by the above experiment, practically the whole of the current may be side-tracked by a shunt of low resistance.

  69. If the object was to shunt Rickman Senior altogether, Rickman Junior could be depended on for that, too.

  70. I know (if you don't) that that two hundred ought to be three thousand, and if it isn't paid I shall have to shunt the business.

  71. When on the 0° to 8° range, the shunt S is open-circuited and the shunt S' alone used.

  72. This is done by inserting a small shunt y, parallel with the coil fl, and thus the temperature coefficient of fl and fr are made absolutely equal.

  73. What should we think of a railway company that would shunt half its engines on to a siding and leave them to the destructive influence of rain and dust?

  74. And how shall we characterise the stupidity that shall shunt millions of serviceable human beings into circumstances of misery so appalling as well as of uselessness so entire, as those which we have endeavoured to picture?


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