[26238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [announce-all] NAC Maintenance this weekend (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Sun Dec 12 19:14:20 1999
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:08:40 -0500
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From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
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Around 12:36 PM 12/11/1999 -0500, rumor has it that Greg A. Woods said:
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>[ On Saturday, December 11, 1999 at 03:02:07 (-0500), Steve Sobol wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: [announce-all] NAC Maintenance this weekend (fwd)
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>> The last time a transformer blew near my house, all that happened is
>> that some of the neighbors lost power for a while.
Well, some years ago, I called the building maintenance guy to tell him about a rattling transformer (about 2KAmp). He told me to get out of there fast. Turned out to be a broken cooling fan making noise. Another employer used to do some odd things with power, which eventually blew out their tranformer. Took 3 of those semi trailers with 1Megawatt generators running for a week while repairs were made.
So, I don't doubt that a generator test, or rather the sudden interruption of load, could result in a tranformer failure and the damage as described. Its just that sort damage would make news that could be found. Maybe we are just bad searchers...
--Dean
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