Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #40958
From: Dan Ballin <dballin@gmail.com>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Essential Bus??
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:56:41 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
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
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