[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 11:13:19 Simon Hobson wrote:

> I would not be at all surprised to find these solar installation
> having setups designed to detect loss of grid and shut down - so as
> to avoid the potential problems of feeding the grid (you either
> overload the unit, or stuff dangerous voltages up the line, os some
> combination).

A local Railroad signalman here was killed when he shut down the primary line 
to work on it. A Maintainer fired up a generator to run one of the doghouses, 
and this fed back through the transformer, killing the signal lineman, who 
thought all power was off.

So there may be some justification for such a design.

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