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Question --In stroke competi
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In an interesting article on the in which the writer happened totion has a player the right to ask loud speaker,
the Electrical, be taking refuge from a shower, advice concerning Times says
JI enthusiastic daininstrator We concluded this column last urged him to "get as far as you possible way to play his next week with a reference to the like from the loud speaker." As shot? undoubted field which will develop this damonstrator was bent on advice from his caddie but no Answer-A player can seek for the loud speaker, and suggest- | showing what a remarkable ed many of the troubles alleged to volume of sound could be pre-player is liable to disqualifica
one else. For anch a breach a be due to this instrument were to daced, no second invitation was he attributed to the fact that the needed. We have urged this tion. receiving and amplifying sets in paint enough. It is far more Question: In madal play if conjunction with which they important to spend considerable ou tie with a competitor for first worked were not suitably designed time in finding out how a place at the end of the tourna
use with a loud speaker, asonable volume of melodions ment and decide to play the tie neither were they operated to give sound can be produced, and off what is the proper procedure? best results as this is an import carefully note the various adjust it necessary to play 18 holes lant subject, both from the tech-ments, not attempting anything!
or can it be decided by a single view, it is desirable to discuss this it is to the detriment of quality-the scores are again tied, what nical and commercial points of further in the way of volume if hole? If the rules call for 18 holes and at, the end of the play matter further, and to suggest Naturally, all ordinary forms methods for ensuring the best of circuit noises must be rigidly
about it? possible results.
..'eschewed: so keep a safe distance
Answer:-Ties in medal play The first paint we should like from the oscillating point, other hale. If at the finish of a tourna
cannot be decided by a single] to make is put into vernacular wise
will arise phraseology-Don't be greedy," and produce
ment two players are tied for by which we mean, do not aim unpleasant effects from the loud they play an extra round to settle
correspondingly
first place it is necessary that at producing a tremendous vo-speaker. lume of sound. It does not im- Another devise aften resorted! the question of supremacy, the press. Only a few days ago at to, if the operator doubts whether the winner. If at the end of 18 ¡lowest score in the playoff to be a seaside contractor's showroom loud enough results are being holes of play the match is again age on the anodes of the valves. a tie the players must again play This is bad practice with a set, a full round.
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whether a loud speaker is to be,
Question-Player after reach-
used or not. Manufacturers doing the green and sizing up the not suggest & suitable plate volt- the ball on a direct line with his situation, walks from the cup to age for a valve without reason putt Is the player liable to Equally the filament voltage
must be kept to its normal value, Penalty for so doing? and in this connection it is very right to so mark the line of patt Answer A player has no desirable to bave separate fila:
ment resistances for the individus The line of puts must not de valves, so that each may be ad-touched except by placing the justed to its best point according ball in the act of addressing it, club immediately in front of the to the function it is fulfilling.
Again, the valve must be operated prior to trying to sink the putt. on the straight part of its char-The player can be penalized by acteristic. It is apt to be over-the loss of the hole.
looked that the voltage applied to
the last valve of a four or five
salve amplifer may easily be finding.-In
& maximum-min- more than enough to produce the imam method a rotating- switch maximum possible variation in gear is employed to reverse.auto- plate current.
matically the sense of one loop Excessive grid currents have zeriel in relation to the other. to be guarded against, as they are The resultant energy passes. a well-known source of distortion. through a double rectifier whose These should be kept to a output current is cut up by a minimum by the addition of a second reversing switch mounted negative voltage applied across ten the same shaft as the first grid and filament
The resulting pulsations are
Low frequency transformers applied to a relay or indicating are a source of trouble, as they instrument which will swing in possess varying resonance char- one direction or the other until acteristics. As a loud speaker the loop aerial system is correctly also possesses resonance char-set. The setting may be effected. acteristics which will probably automatically by the swing mi not agree with those of the low the instrument, and various frequency transformer, difficulty means are described for controll- in this direction may le ex-ing or correcting irregularities in perienced.
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The connecting of a hir b C. S. Franklin and others.- resistance-across the transformer Directive wireless.-Two or more windings improves, matters. The radiogoniometers are connected value of the resistance should be to a common aerial system of 'he] of the order of 100,000 ohms. An-Pellini-Tosi type so that signals other method of improvement is can be received simultaner usiy afforded by the connectit of a from different directions and upen condenser across the terminals different wave-lengths, the polar of the loud speaker, While low curves in each case being rota- frequency transformers rive the table without affecting the other. greatest amount of amplification, E. B. Mcullin.-Voltmetar.-A it must te torne in mind that direct reading voltmeter for they do not represent the only alternating current, particularly method of transferring the energy 'below 3 volts, comprises a 3-1 from one vale to the next. electrode talve with symmetric Recently it has been demon- conductivity between anode and strated that a resistance capacity filament. Potential is applied coupling, although not giving the between the grid and filament and sale degree of magnification, the iccrease in the mean anode, produces a purer note, and this, currect is measured by a galvano fact should not be lost sight of. meter calibrated to read the We now come to the loud applied potential directly. A speaker itself. One of the main resistance in series between the features in its design which must filament and the filaurent be carefully studied before selec- lead-in wire ccntrols anode, tion is the horn. Naturally, grid, and flament potentisis. as in so many other matters, the filament lead-in wire being the results which cen be connected to a fixed point of same. produced will influence A condenser is provided in THE HUMAN ZOO much as anything; tut even parallel with the galvanometer to fairly good demonstra-prevent Boctuation of anode tion may be given it is never potential. The anode current is wise to choose an instrument controlled by a bizh resistance with a horn which has any awk, (30,000 ohms.) to produce a sui-] ward anglesor restricted rassages, table "annde potential. The ca'i- Graceful curved lines and plenty Fration of the instrument is fully of opening must always be described. strong recommendation.
F. C. B. Chase. Jointing Con Then, as regards adjustment.dactors. A pair of jointed Provision for a wide range of the conductors arranged side by side adjustment does net necessarily have rubber or gutta-perrha cap mean that it is possible for a loud slipped over the joint. The in- speaker to reproduce varying terior of theeaphas two diameters, classes of transmission to the best re for the fare twisted wires and advantage. Adjustment in nearly the other to receive the adjacent; all types is effected by varying, insulation covered parts of the the air gap between diaphragm ductors.
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