On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:00:43 GMT, Larry W4CSC wrote:

Gary Schafer wrote in
:

And how would you like to be responsible for "telling" them to shut
down the main switch. After doing so there will be a gigantic kick
back of voltage to all the boats tied together on the open ac mains.
The kick back will come from the fields suddenly collapsing in all
those compressors and battery chargers that are on line. Now it is
your fault that someone's equipment got fried! :)

Regards
Gary


Naw....We had all that before the 70V happened. I took the exploded little
surge protector to the marina office and they were very interested in
talking about over and undervoltage sensing equipment. Grangers sells them
for $75. They activate external trip breakers to shut down the marina.
Management was very interested.

Gary, you talk about all this as if the power were some kind of DC circuit.
Any time the power company just shuts the power down, according to your
crazy theories, everything in the grid would be destroyed. We had a huge
overvoltage condition that exploded that surge protector, followed by a
long period of intense brownout. Is brownout better for everyone's
refridgeration than simply shutting the marina down until the power company
can restore the proper voltage?....

I think not.


I suppose you don't know why you should always shut down your air
conditioners on the boat before you disconnect the mains power.

Regards
Gary