Revolving Machinery:
Standby and Desc:
Chariot float or balls:
Chariot desc:
Length of drop tube:
Clock Weight:
Length of winding time:
Drive During Rewind:
Machinery protection:
Regulated:
Lens Protection:
How color produced:
Red sectors desc:
Where color attached:
Form of colored glass:
Lamp desc:
Type of illuminant:
Candle Power:
Num spare lamps:
Num spare burners:
Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
Sentinel Island Light Station - 1921
Illuminating Apparatus page 2 of 2
No.
White
None.
acetylene
54 cp of burner
No spare flasher, 2 4th order, 1 wick Funk-Heep oil lamps for emergency relief.
1 spare 1.25 ft. AGA burner.
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Characteristic:
Time limit:
Eclipse type:
Size and amplitude
Axis rotation:
Axis relation:
Screen revolution:
Screen number:
Screen time:
Screen form:
Screen Mounting:
Screen order:
Screen date:
Valve maker:
Valve pattern:
Reliability:
Group Flashing white every 10 seconds, thus; flash 0.3 seconds, eclipse 0.2 seconds, flash 0.3 seconds, eclipse 4.5 seconds.
Not known
Valve.
American Gas Accumulator Co.
Double flasher KK130
Not entirely reliable.
Occulting Light
Gaslight kind:
Gaslight number of burners:
Kind of burner:
Candlepower per burner:
Total Candlepower:
Consumption gas burner per hour:
Total consumption per hour:
How gas obtained:
Acetylene in acetone.
1
AGA flat flame