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To: mewzilla

FPL just said a sub-station tripped. That would backload the generation plant and trip it. That would cause a big drain on the rest of the grid and that would take them down also. No big deal. More surprised it does not happen more often.


242 posted on 02/26/2008 1:00:23 PM PST by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: Sunnyflorida
Probably has a large transformer go south. When one of these things self destructs you get a system transient, on a chart it looks like a big spike up and then down, Voltage.

Large Generators have over voltage and under voltage relays to protect the unit from these little buggers, big enough hit your out.

263 posted on 02/26/2008 1:13:22 PM PST by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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