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Originally posted by sparky66wv:
Pardon my ignorance once again, but I thought that if you lowered voltage a few percent, some devices will try to make up for the loss by drawing even more current...

And I thought current was the whole problem anyway..... Too much demand, not enough supply... How does decreasing voltage help this situation?

This is probably another one of my dumb assumptions that has nothing to do with the real world... [Linked Image]

Here in WV we have the opposite problem. The PoCo likes to run about 122V to 123V per leg, which is real hard on standard 120V light bulbs. I install only 130V bulbs myself because of this.

[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 06-30-2001).]

When I lived in Buffalo, years ago, they had a generating station right on the river(Niagara), and Riverside a subburb of that town, had this problem every summer, it seems the local Power company Niagara Mohawk would divert some power to NYC, and Vio-la brownout, especially refrigerators but that was some 27 years ago, hope its gotten better.