Features of silicon-rectifier electric locomotive manufactured by Ganz-Mavag for mixed traffic duties; 3000 hp locomotives are designed to haul 1500 ton freight and 600 ton fast passenger trains up gradients of 7/1000; there are two independent secondary windings, each of which supplies rectifier bridge and one traction motor; two tertiary windings supply power for train heating at 1500 v or 1000 v, and for auxiliaries at 250 v d-c through silicon rectifier bridge; banks of silicon-rectifier cells in series-parallel are fed with traction power by secondary of main transformer at nominal 1400 v.


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    Title :

    Dual-voltage locomotive for Hungarian state railways


    Additional title:

    Ry Gaz


    Published in:

    Railway Gazette ; 121 , n 24


    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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