Gregory's ServerThe PG&E outage map had just a few sprinkles on it last night. It’s been growing lots of colored dots ever since and right now it seems maybe 40% of silicon valley is out of power. Hard to tell because I’m not sure everybody gets their power from them. This will take forever to restore and the storm is still going strong, too. So if you don’t hear from me for a while, you know why.
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….and power is back for us. Aren’t we lucky. Learnings: the new fridge wants to pull so much power when starting its compressor that the inverter shuts down. So the use case that we bought it and some batteries for doesn’t actually work! The previous fridge didn’t do that!  @J12t They make "slow start" (basically big capacitor banks with regulation) that are designed for this kind of major current pull for starter motors and compressors. Potentially viable. @J12t They make "soft start" (basically big capacitor banks with regulation) that are designed for this kind of major current pull for starter motors and compressors. Potentially viable. |
@J12t I hope you weather the storm okay! Sort of puts my complaints about a little wind disrupting the TV signal into perspective.