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Observation report on machine singing issues related to bearings and control brush positioning.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 36\4\  scan 150
Date  21th October 1920
  
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EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 5/T21.10.20.

same speed and output for different positions of the control brush. These observations were made on a machine with good bearings.

A machine was afterwards put on in which the bearings were known to be a trifle slack, but this machine did not sing badly under normal conditions. It could, however, be made to sing with a fully advanced control brush. Singing may always be produced on any E.575 machine by sufficiently advancing the control brush. Operating as a simple shunt wound machine any Lucas E.575 dynamo is quite silent.

EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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