[mythtv-users] Power outages and UPSs

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:32:01PM -0400, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> Yes; I wasn't serious about this, for all of the above reasons.
> 
> (I'm waiting for the first instance of the real grid going into
> oscillation from the negative resistances of all those switching
> power supplies.  So far, the load is still vastly positive R with
> lots of reactance, but someday... :)

Big Power is *really* fun, if you're into that sort of think; MIT's
local grid is big enough, I think, to qualify.

One of my favorite anecdotes: what happens when you get the second 50MW
generator hooked up out of phase:

	http://yarchive.net/car/rv/generator_synchronization.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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