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Conduit for current collection between the rails of streetcars in Washington, D.C., 1939. Washington installed the system in 1895 [1] and it remained in operation until 1962 [2] Conduit current collection is an obsolete system that was used by some electric tramways to pass current to
In an electric power system, a fault or fault current is any abnormal electric current. For example, a short circuit is a fault in which a live wire touches a neutral or ground wire. An open-circuit fault occurs if a circuit is interrupted by a failure of a current-carrying wire (phase or neutral) or a blown fuse or circuit breaker .
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Seville Tram equipped with CAF ACR ground-level power supply, 2019. Ground-level power supply, also known as surface current collection or, in French, alimentation par le sol ("feeding via the ground"), is a concept and group of technologies that enable electric vehicles to collect electric power at ground level instead of the more common overhead lines.
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It was the first fully automatic moving-block signalling system to be commercially implemented. SelTrac was originally developed in the 1970s by Standard Elektrik Lorenz (the "SEL" in the name) of Germany for the Krauss-Maffei Transurban , an automated guideway transit system proposed for the GO-Urban network in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada.
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Utility locating is the process of identifying and labeling public utility mains that are underground. These mains may include lines for telecommunication , electricity distribution , natural gas , cable television , fiber optics , traffic lights , street lights , storm drains , water mains , and wastewater pipes.