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).
Description of the Bleriot Compensated Cut-out component.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 48\3\ Scan148 | |
| Date | 24th November 1920 guessed | |
| The Bleriot Compensated Cut-out (continued). " constant, irrespective as to whether the air gap is a maximum or minimum. Apart from the compensation thus obtained it will be clear that the heat developed in the cut-out shunt circuit is reduced. Practically no reverse current is necessary to break the circuit, owing, of course, to the compensating action of the resistance. The main contacts are of silver and are protected from the effect of any slight sparking which may take place, by separate carbon contacts which "make" before and "break" after the silver contacts. The main contacts are therefore kept permanently in good condition and require no attention whatever. | ||