Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures [OT]

2011-06-26 Thread Pete Carah
On 06/26/2011 05:55 PM, Jussi Peltola wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:36:24PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: >> but transforming is not easy. >> ac/ac transformers are easy tu build and very immune against lightning >> strikes - inverter systems are not. > Switching DC is also problematic si

Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures [OT]

2011-06-26 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:36:24PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > but transforming is not easy. > ac/ac transformers are easy tu build and very immune against lightning > strikes - inverter systems are not. Switching DC is also problematic since there is no zero crossing to extinguish the arc