Questions about UPS+surge protector

[Seneca]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 11:26:00AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> >IIRC, power lines in the U.K. are buried.  I'm not a power systems engineer
> >but I expect that alone would make the grid more robust.
> 
> Yeah, they're buried, which makes them weatherproof, but not immune to 
> backhoe damage (which makes an amusingly loud bang if one cuts through a 
> 33kV cable).

But it's not so amusing when the aforementioned backhoe cuts through a
6kV cable in the morning and results in not being able to do much with 
anything that uses electricty (computers and food-cooking appiances, 
mainly) until the next day.

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