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Specifications for platinum point gap, contact breaker timing, and armature core flux.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 49\5\  Scan169
Date  8th March 1921
  
-7- Contd.

(22b) Platinum point gap :- "003" and "008"

Contact breaker timing:-

| | Make. | Break. |
|-----|---------|----------|
| A. {Mr Adams} | -87° | +71.5° |
| R. {Sir Henry Royce} | -26.5° | +131.5° |

| | Retarded. | Advanced. |
|-------|-----------|-----------|
| Make. | -27° | -87° |
| Break.| 130° | 71° |
| Make. | 154° | 93° |
| Break.| 313° | 252° |

Make ratio :- .880

(23) Armature core flux

| Speed. | Flux. |
|--------|-------|
| 400. | |
| 800 | |
| 1200 | |
| 1600 | |
| 2000 | |
| 2400 | |
| 2800 | |

8.3.21.
  
  
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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