POWER CHARGES FOR DAIRY FACTORIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3601, 19 February 1927, Page 3

POWER CHARGES FOR DAIRY FACTORIES.

INDIVIDICAL MOTORS MORE

expensive

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Horowhomia Power Board, Mr. W. E. Barber, a director of the-Shan-non Dairy Co., asked the engineer to explain why it was costing his company more for power than the Levin company. He pointed out that the Levin company used 40 k.v.a. while Shannon used 70. He asked that the engineer inspect the Shannon installation,which was put down by the Board’s engineer. Possibly Shannon was using too many motors.

Mr. iSeii'ert stated tliat, before installing electric power at the Miranui flaxmill his company found that the mill with the greatest number of motors took by far the most current, and in consequence they decided not to have many motors at this mill, which nevertheless was reckoned by elertrical engineers to be the finest installation in New Zealand.

The chairman said it was quite likely a mistake has been made in installing a motor qn each churn. Theye was an object in that, which was that you could ran one churn with less power, whereas with one big motor you might have perhaps only one churn running at a time. I know a. small factory which did the same thing, and I think they will make arrangements to take out two small motors and put in one large one. Mr Barber: The Levin factory is driving three churns to Shannon’s two.

Mr. Ross stated that in America small installations were being discarded in favour of large ones. ■ Mr. Seifert stated that they had had a 25 h.p. motor driving an automatic scutcher. They put in a 40 h.p. motor to provide for certain things, and were not using any more units than with the 25 h.p., while they had the satisfaction of never being “kicked out.” Mr. Barber said he thought the Board should make full investigation after what Mr. Seifert had said. It seemed that if they were putting in single units for churns, etc., they were doing wrong.

It was decided to make an inspection at the Shannon dairy factory after the meeting.