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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:24:10PM -0500, zman wrote:
> It usually has to do with the transformer you are attatched to. Our house
> and the next were on the same transformer, hence we both had not regained
> power after they fixed the rest of the street. They had to come back out
> and fix our transformer (it's in the back yard on a seperate pole). So if
> you trace your lines your probably notice how your grouped.

FWIW, How Stuff Works has a pretty decent writeup (complete with annoying
ad popups!) of the power grid, transformers, and so forth, for those who
were curious about how a blown transformer affected them in the storm:

 http://www.howstuffworks.com/power.htm

I was hoping for more info on the actual makeup of transformers, as I was
curious whether they still used PCBs, and why, but this is still a good
overview. I knew they worked by mutual induction, more about which below:

 http://www.citycollegiate.com/transformers.htm

but this page was no help at all:

 http://users.htcomp.net/weis/sqwhy4eeyore.html

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