Difference between revisions of "Lahmeyer Electrical Co"
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[[Image:JD 2020 | [[Image:JD 2020 Lahmeyer1.jpg|thumb|Lanhmeyer flywheel alternators and Sulzer steam engines at Ferndale Collieries. Photo from 'The South Wales Coal Annual' for 1908, via Archive.org]] | ||
[[Image:JD 2020 Lahmeyer.jpg|thumb|This photograph, found between the pages of a book, is unidentified, but clearly shows one of the Lahmeyer alternators at Ferndale Colliery . Ironically, the book was about steam turbines, which would spell the end of large reciprocating steam engines and their flywheel alternators]] | [[Image:JD 2020 Lahmeyer.jpg|thumb|This photograph, found between the pages of a book, is unidentified, but clearly shows one of the Lahmeyer alternators at Ferndale Colliery . Ironically, the book was about steam turbines, which would spell the end of large reciprocating steam engines and their flywheel alternators]] | ||
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Methods of measuring current, voltage, and energy in high tension installations. | Methods of measuring current, voltage, and energy in high tension installations. | ||
Supplied electrical equipment to | Supplied electrical equipment to [[David Davis and Sons]] Ltd for their [[Ferndale Colliery|Ferndale Collieries]]. This included three Sulzer Bros cross-compound 2500 HP engines driving Lahmeyer flywheel generators working at 2200 volts, 25 Hz, 3-phase. See photographs. The identy on the alternators was presumably intended to give the impression that they were made in the UK. Lahmeyer also supplied, for the No. 9 Pit, the first electric winding machinery to be operated in the South Wales Coalfield. It worked on the Ilgner System, with a 16-feet parallel drum coupled to two direct current motors mounted on either side, each giving a maximum output of 1,250 HP. The DC current for driving the winder motors came from a large Ilgner Motor Generator, consisting of a three-phase 2,200 volt motor (750 HP) driven direct from the power station supply. A DC generator supplied the winding motors, and there was a large cast steel flywheel, weighing approximately 30 tons, coupled on the same shaft, to supply the necessary power to the DC Generator in excess of that supplied by the three-phase motor in order to generate sufficient power for the winder-motors during the early part of the wind, when the load was very heavy. The flywheel had a maximum speed of 500 rpm, and had the effect of equalizing the load taken from the power station. The flywheel was 13 feet diameter, and 3 feet wide on the rim.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/southwalescoalan00carduoft/page/n19] The South Wales Coal Annual for 1908, via Archive.org </ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:23, 4 January 2020
109/111 New Oxford Street, London
Presumably the UK agents for Lahmeyer of Germany.
Later taken over by AEG.
Electric railway and tramway bonds, both solid and flexible.
Electric motors and generators of all sizes.
Methods of measuring current, voltage, and energy in high tension installations.
Supplied electrical equipment to David Davis and Sons Ltd for their Ferndale Collieries. This included three Sulzer Bros cross-compound 2500 HP engines driving Lahmeyer flywheel generators working at 2200 volts, 25 Hz, 3-phase. See photographs. The identy on the alternators was presumably intended to give the impression that they were made in the UK. Lahmeyer also supplied, for the No. 9 Pit, the first electric winding machinery to be operated in the South Wales Coalfield. It worked on the Ilgner System, with a 16-feet parallel drum coupled to two direct current motors mounted on either side, each giving a maximum output of 1,250 HP. The DC current for driving the winder motors came from a large Ilgner Motor Generator, consisting of a three-phase 2,200 volt motor (750 HP) driven direct from the power station supply. A DC generator supplied the winding motors, and there was a large cast steel flywheel, weighing approximately 30 tons, coupled on the same shaft, to supply the necessary power to the DC Generator in excess of that supplied by the three-phase motor in order to generate sufficient power for the winder-motors during the early part of the wind, when the load was very heavy. The flywheel had a maximum speed of 500 rpm, and had the effect of equalizing the load taken from the power station. The flywheel was 13 feet diameter, and 3 feet wide on the rim.[1]