Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

I once was in a situation where every time the Refrigerator (in
another room, but on the same circuit) powered up, the computer
rebooted. This gets very old very fast, but illustrates that even your
home wiring can misbehave and affect what you have plugged in.

Your very old fridge, rated at 750 watts, draws around 1500 watts to
start, maybe more and for longer if in deteriorating condition.
Thus unknown  the duration and size of the voltage drop.

My attention was called to this when, over a decade ago, our 40
y.o. fridge worked fine until I tried to run it on a 1500 watt genset
after a storm when the main gen set had failed.  It bogged the
generator down severly when starting.


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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada