Re: eastern power outage
What I can't figure is why they don't protect these power plants like we do in amplifiers.
In a parallel output power amp the output transistors are protected from this very chain reaction by a simple resistor. It's called a bias resistor. it works by limiting the current the transistor can pass thus protecting it if one transistor fails the rest will keep on working.
The degree of loss of power would depend on two things how much this transistor contributed to the total output and how many transistors are there in the circuit. I know that the voltage has to be kept in a min range but I think if resistor banks were installed the small loss of one or two power plants the drop in voltage could be overcome or even not be a problem at all.
There I go again another millon dollar answer given away.
LOL
[ August 19, 2003, 12:40 AM: Message edited by: hurk27 ]