-------- In message <043966d4-def4-4bc4-ba9d-ec46070fd...@comcast.net>, Peter Reilley wr ites:
>Even in the old days a lot of devices were constant load, independent of >voltage (within reason). >Anything regulated such as electric heat, electric hot water, and >refrigerators are constant load. Constant over the long term (hours), but not in the short term (seconds) where grid stability is most important. >Utilities found that dropping the voltage was not very effective at >shedding load in emergency >situations. No, it's no use for shedding load, but keeping things nice and stable is much easier with a load which converges on your target parameters, than with a load which diverges from it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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 To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
