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From: "Dan Ballin" <dballin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Essential Bus??
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Colyn I agree with you, but maybe I am missing something.  If say my
main alt craps out.  I wouldn't loose power to the bus.  The battery
should take over and I would have time to hit the cross-tie.  I
wouldn't think anything would reboot?
Dan

On 3/27/07, colyncase on earthlink <colyncase@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> the only thing
> an essential bus gives me is a list of items that I do not want to
> shed
>
> how many micro-processors in your panel?
> micro-processors have an ugly habit of rebooting when you remove power, even
> for a moment.
>
> cross-tie doesn't help that problem.  by the time you turn on the cross-tie
> you are looking at seconds to minutes to get back whatever function those
> micro-processors were doing.
>
> so you end up with some sort of diode setup.   ...which will end up being 2
> diodes per important box or
> 2 diodes per essential bus.
>
> automatic also useful when you are in a high workload situation, which you
> would be.
>
> Colyn