[GTALUG] mysterious restarts

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:13:19PM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> I don't know but it could probably be done. On the other hand, I did
> observe the the effects of running a new unit at 600V, when they tested the
> three segment unit in front of my apt on the tight turn. There were dull
> yellow sparks flying every time it hit a bearing point.

I have seen sparks from the old cars too.  Trolleypoles will do that.

Sure they might be bigger sparks with the 50% higher power demand the
new trains have.

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Len Sorensen