to increase to a point where their overspeed devices opened.
This stopped engine No, l.
3,

With the fuel supply shutoff, engine No, 3 continued to run,
probably because of heated lubrication oils being forced into
the cylinders and fired upon compression, When the crank case
was cooled by the outside air the engine stopped,

The ground shock which caused the oil circuit breakers to open was
quite severe and apparently no one was prepared for a shock of this
magnitude, Holmes & Narver had not beer advised that a heavy ground
shock would follow the blast and this accounts for no preparation being
made to energize the fuel shut off valves on the engines when the main
source of power was gone. As a result of the experience gained from
the Ranit experiment, the wiring of the solenoid operated fuel oil shut
off valves was modified to provide battery energization for these valves
in the power plants at Engebi and Aomon in the event circuit breakers
in these plants also opened,
From minus 0210 hour on Easy Day on Engebi, the power output increased from 130 to 170 kw, the voltage increased from 120 to 124 volts,
and the current increased from 43 to 53 amps at 2,400 volts. Frequency
remained the same, This increase in voltage during the five hours prior
to zero was evidently due to the heating in the power plant effecting
the temperature element on the voltage regulator, The second of two
short circuits at zero plus 14,72 seconds shut down the power plant before the timing circuit functioned,
For the George Experiment on the Aomon Group, battery energization
of the fuel oil valve was again provided. Following is a summary of
the power plant operational data on George Day:

Current (amps
at2400volts)

Frequency
incycles

Time

Kw

Voltage

Minus 60 minutes

138

120

40.5

60

Minus 30 minutes

170

120

50.0

60

Minus 15 minutes

200

118

64.0

60

Zero plus .83 seconds

220

120

64,0

60

Fluctuations in load at minus 15 and minus 30 minutes resulted in
transient variations in voltage and frequency. Two engines shut down
on short circuit at plus .83 seconds, The third continued to run until
shut down manually the following morning at approximately eight-thirty.
The item experiment at Engebi required operation of two engines in
the power plant, and the plant was prepared for zero hour in accordance
with established procedure, Examination of the charts after this test
indicated that the voitage was continuous and uninterrupted from the

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