Television cameras showed debris falling from the sky and power transformers being knocked out by high winds.
The principle is exploited in devices from electric motors to power transformers.
Television cameras showed debris falling from the sky west of Oklahoma City and power transformers being knocked out by high winds across a wider area.
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The large power transformers, that control most the power flowing through the grid, are failing at an alarming rate, twice the rate as in 2001, and ten times the rate as in 1980.
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With the Industrial Internet, everything from the biggest machines generating power to transformers on power poles can be connected to the Internet, providing status updates and performance data.
The infrastructure that connected these homes to the most basic of services was severed when hurricane-force winds brought trees down across power lines and transformers were fried in a deluge of salt water.
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When powerful eruptions reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids as well as tripping electronics on satellites.
The electro electric systems business markets transformers, switchgears, circuit breakers, power electronics and control systems and others.
Infineon also provides the thyristor chips that allow transformers to handle high-voltage direct-current power lines.
High-voltage DC can carry power over long distances at lower cost than alternating current, but the transformers still cost too much to make the idea widespread.
Traditional inverters gather power from all or most of the panels in an installation and use transformers, capacitors and switches to change it from direct current to alternating current.
Home appliances, meters, transformers and generators could all share data and work together to make the power grid more efficient, for example by lowering the peak load.
The problem is this: we have a highly complicated electricity grid with approximately 3, 500 utilities, thousands of power plants, 200, 000 miles of lines, and tens of thousands of transformers.
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Damage to the grid: Power surges and electrical system failure due to high loads can cause power outages and damage to BC Hydro equipment and infrastructure, including the premature failure of distribution transformers.
The U.S. grid connects over 6, 000 power plants to users around the country through more than 350, 000 miles of transmission lines, transformers and substations that are mostly past their expected forty-year lifespans ( Department of Energy, 2012).
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Power lines are extremely hostile places for data signals, with high levels of electronic noise and an obstacle course of transformers, surge arrestors and splices that create a huge impedance to the free flow of high-frequency signals.
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