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Default Reckless electricity generating

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:12:03 -0000, "Vic" wrote:

Dundee man to face reckless electricity generating charges

Charles McKenzie is accused of building a home-made generator in his flat at
Dudhope Court

A Dundee man is to stand trial accused of "recklessly producing household
electricity" in a 14th storey flat using a home-made generator system.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-21770421


So, a 12V generator, car battery and an inverter is a "dangerous transformer
assembly" and clearly illegal. I must remember that, since I have one in my
car.


For one brief moment as I saw the subject line I thought this was about a sudden
gust ramping wind generation up so fast the conventional generation had to vent
steam to waste as the governors closed.

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