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From: bc338569@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Brian Catlin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: wanted: device to turn brownouts into blackouts
Keywords: brownout blackout
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Date: 15 Apr 91 22:38:21 GMT
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In article <11568@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bender@oobleck.Eng.Sun.COM (I want to be eating rich soup in another town) writes:
>
>The question really is, why did the power company supply you with 60 VAC for
>that long a period instead of just cutting off power completely?  I thought
>that part of the utility's charter was to provide voltage and frequency
>within a certain narrow range??

  In rural areas this is almost too common.  We will have brownouts that last
  over two hours after we call the power company.  Since this is not too good
  on our motors for the exhaust fans in our greenhouses, we just have to shut
  off the electricity and let it get EXTREMELY hot.  I think an automatic cutoff
  switch would work great for this.  If anybody has any good ideas about this
  please post them!

B. J. Catlin

bc338569@longs.lance.colostate.edu