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At the moment we are practically hove to on the surface, with the port engine just jogging to keep her head on to sea and the starboard ticking round to give her a long, slow charge of 200 amps.

Like a strobe-light. We took off with a light field. It's on now we have to keep it on. But I got hold of some pretty storage condensers. I hooked them up in parallel to get a momentary surge of high-amperage current when I shorted them through my field-making coils. Couldn't make it a steady current! Everything would blow! But I had a surge of probably six amps per square centimetre for a while."

It was pitch-black dark when I took over at 4 a.m., and a fresh breeze had raised a lumpy sea, which covered the bridge with spray. We were charging 400 amps on each, with the intention of laying one mine directly there was sufficient light to get a fix from some of the buoys which the English stick down all over the place here in the most convenient manner possible.

It is evidently important that the deposited material should be so firmly adherent that it can be washed, dried, and weighed without loss in handling. In prescribing analytical conditions it is customary to state the current strength in "normal densities" expressed in amperes per 100 sq. cm. of electrode surface, as, for example, "N.D = 2 amps."

"I put a current of ten thousand amps through a little piece of lead wire, and that gave me a current density of 10^ amps per square inch. "Then I started jacking up the voltage, and modified the thing with a double-polarity field somewhat similar to the molecular motion field except that it works on a sub-nucleonic level.

We then pumped out "Q" and "P," leaving "W" full, and adjusted our trim to give her only three tons negative buoyancy, just enough to keep us on the bottom if she came out of the mud. In this position we went full speed astern on the motors, 1,500 amps on each, and all the crew in the after-compartment. No result.

As he closed the switch, on no-load, the electrostatic voltmeter flopped over instantly, and steadied at just over 80,000 volts. "I hate to say 'I told you so," said Kendall. "But let's hook in a load. Try it on about 100 amps first." Devin began cutting in load. The resistors began heating up swiftly as more and more current flowed through them.

We were actually running with an F.C. of 3.75 amps, for a period, when the sparking assumed the appearance of a ring of fire and, fearing a commutator strip would melt, I ordered an F.C. of five amps. We thus passed a quarter of an hour full of strain, the tension of which was reflected in the attitude of all the men.