On Jun 15, 2016 3:46 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> Another power out here by the Dufferin gates just before 6am. Was anyone else hit?
Again it was just a couple of minutes, but this season is hitting new milestones. > > Russell Reiter wrote: > > > > Had another power out at my building. > > I think I was hit by that one this morning too, and I'm in the east end. > > > … I kind of like the view down ft Roulle st and > > watching the windmill. I resist the temptation to attribute any of the > > electrical anomalies I have experienced to it's operations > > As a director (again) of that project, I'm glad you like it, and I > appreciate that you're not blaming your outages on it. I'd be more > likely to attribute them to the Strachan substation, which is under > colossal pressure from all the new condo builds. The city is trying to > build a relief line and new substation capacity, but getting past > objections is tough. > > The wind turbine has a rather nice AC (variable frequency)-DC-AC (60 Hz) > inverter. I imagine the new streetcars have something similar. > > On DC, New York retired its last DC infrastructure only a few years ago. > The very last few DC customers now have rectifiers installed in their > basements, but are still charged the absurdly high DC metering price for > their power. I'm led to believe these are heritage buildings with > historic elevators and lighting which can't be replaced and remain > within code without tearing everything out. > > cheers, > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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