Thread: We Had A Brown Out

Brownouts can have many causes, including damage and getting off the Hertz balance.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Brownouts can have many causes, including damage and getting off the Hertz balance.

Brownouts are all to do with voltage - nothing to do with frequency. The frequency of the supply will only dip when a massive load is applied to the generator(s) - usually when one source of supply fails and leaves what's left unable to cope - it would only last a few seconds before the underfrequency protection would trip the other sources of supply - leaving a blackout.

Yes, you're right, I didn't say that right. A drop in voltage, which may be caused by an overload.

Originally Posted by Vern

Not a suicide lead i hope?

No. Genny has twin outlets. So I put it near the water pump for one and a long lead into a power board inside the house for fridge and telly.

We quite often get power blackouts But they normally are fixed in a few hours.
I have 2x 3kva gensets that I keep topped up with fuel and it only takes a few minutes to run some leads and power boards into the house to keep the freezers/fridges running and the TV for the essential Home and Away for the missus.
In the office I simply run an ark pack and small inverter.

Just about every time we get a Summer storm or some other nasty weather we generally loose power and I have usually already set up the gensets before the lights go out because it happens that often.

Dave,
We had the blackout for a minute or two, but no brown out.