[PRCo] Re: PCC speed

[Boris Cefer]

A mistake occured. Just not rear motors, but front motors are shunted during
coast. But it doesn't play any important role in general.

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Cefer" <boris6 at volny.cz>


> Today we tested our rail grinding car after an extensive overhaul. The car
is quite common PCC car (Tatra T3 type), but with air applied rectangular
grinding blocks instead of rear track brakes. For the purpose of rail
grinding the car is stripped of field shunting to obtain lower balancing
speed. There is only one field shunting contactor (F) which provides full
field shunting of rear motors' fields during coast.............