Commercial AC power outage - restore Voltage ?

[Nan and Sandy Sanders]

According to out friends at Wikipedia
"During the 1965 black-out the bearings of the Allis-Chalmers Turbine 
were damaged. The lube oil pumps were hooked up to the electrical 
grid, thus shutting them down during the blackout and causing bearing damage. "
     Sandy


At 08:37 AM 8/23/2013, Rob Seastrom wrote:

>Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> writes:
>
> > the first big NYC blackout too much much longer to recover
> > precisely because of the lack of sectionalizing relays
> > which caused the recovery areas to be far larger than
> > could be handled easily without whacking the crap out of
> > the transmission grid.
>
>The 1965 one?  Big Allis couldn't take full nameplate load in
>one step?  I'd be asking for my money back... or wasn't it online yet?  :)
>
>-r
>
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