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Re: [PHOTOS] R-11's - Before and After |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Oct 16 15:10:07 2018, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] R-11's - Before and After, posted by Joe V on Mon Oct 15 20:13:19 2018. Don’t blame the R-16s per se. The problem was with the state of the art of the component parts that went into the total car. It was usually the GE equipment that failed due to the strange system that GE used that had the resistors cooled by a blower rather than by open air. The R-10s through 15s didn’t suffer the same fate since they had the older system of air cooled resistors which GE ultimately returned to starting with the R-26s. If the R-16s had been ordered as a completion of the R-11s, they would likely have performed as their contemporaries, the R-10s which outlasted the R-16s as built. |
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