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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).
Inspection and testing procedures for an electrical machine, focusing on insulation and mechanical condition.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 68\4\  scan0062
Date  10th April 1929 guessed
  
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(9) Examine also for rubbing armature, slack bearings, cracked insulation and final condition of commutator and brush surfaces, and see also that with the dynamo hot, the end cover can be easily put on and taken off.

(10) The insulation of the machine should be tested whilst still hot by applying through a low c.p. 200 volt lamp an alternating voltage of 200 between the windings and the frame, when the lamp should show no sign of being lighted.

EFC.
  
  


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