Had a power outage last night about 10 PM, 2500 power customers affected. Restored about 11:30 PM. Happens every once in a while.
I wondered about how they handled what must be a tremendous "starting load," what with refrigerator motors starting up, furnaces and heat pumps coming back on, all essentially instantaneously. There's sometimes a couple of blinks before it comes on steadily, but mostly, bingo, the power's all normal.
Is the supply equipment just that robust to handle the starting load (e.g., all those inductive devices) all at once, or do they somehow dribble out the "ons" in small areas? I've never been in a position to see if that's the way they do it.
That's always been a question in the back of my mind.
Terry, 230RN