Chris Lewis wrote:
According to cJ :

I recently had a brownout due to weather related power grid issues. The
voltage on my 120 volt circuits was down to about 100-105 volts.


For the most part you can trust the utilities to kill the power completely
if it goes outside of the safe-for-equipment range. They have a tendancy
to have to pay for equipment damaged by operating decisions such as this.

Their equipment will automatically kill the system if they can't keep the
voltage high enough.


They would like too but thats not always possible. Most brown outs I
have experienced were caused by the local transformer loosing a branch.
Not sure they can stop that. But its all so rare. I experience one
about every 6-8 years.


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man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16