In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Hawkins" writes: >Many thanks for the report. Curious about what would cause >that kind of massive overload. Seems like several generating >plants just dropped off the grid.
A big cruise-boat needed to pass under a 400 kV line on the river Ems and to avoid trouble the turned it off during the passage. That resulted in overloads elsewhere and all the cards came crashing down. In the western half of Denmark the frequency got up to 50.4 Hz before producers started to fall off the net. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts