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).
Explaining an electrical fault causing the green lamp on the S.S. distribution board to remain on.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\T\November1928\ Scan065 | |
| Date | 1st December 1928 | |
| To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from EFC. c. BJ. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} ORIGINAL EFC4/T3.12.28. x4060 x9740 S.S. DISTRIBUTION BOARD GREEN LAMP SWITCH. We have arrived at a point in connection with the above that has previously been overlooked, viz. that as a result of not breaking armature connection (dynamo +ve brush) to battery in M & B or first position of switch, green lamp may remain on when charge is put off by switching to M & B, the current for its coil being supplied by the battery viz +ve brush, armature, control brush field winding to terminal C on distribution board. Thus green lamp will often not go off when charge is switched off. The reason it will go off sometimes is that the inductive action of the stoppage of the field current temporarily lowers the voltage (to earth) available at terminal C from which the green lamp operating coil is supplied. EFC. | ||