Heads up; Ontario-wide brownout tests Thursday Jan 19

[Dave Bour]

One client. Blew one half of their power grid, ended up estimated 60v on one phase. Totalled a minolta scanner/copier and about 2 hrs downtime

Dave Bour
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug at ss.org
To: Toronto Linux Users Group
Sent: Fri Jan 20 11:28:28 2006
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Heads up; Ontario-wide brownout tests Thursday Jan 19

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:
>  A chance to see how well your computers do (or don't) stand up to
> brownouts.
>  The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is planning a routine
> voltage reduction test for Thursday, January 19, 2006.
>  A province-wide voltage reduction of three per cent will take place
> between 9:30 am and 11:30 am followed by a five per cent reduction from
> 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
>  See http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/media/md_newsitem.asp?newsID=2699 for
> further details.

I'm curious: did anybody experience any problems with their machines 
during the brownout periods?  As for myself, I didn't notice any 
difference.

JV
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