• Re: Power cuts hit TfL services

    From Peter Able@stuck@home.com to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Wed Jul 16 08:51:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    On 15/07/2025 18:55, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
    On 15 May 2025 11:01:43 GMT
    Marland <gemehabal@btinternet.co.uk> wibbled:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:57:41 +0100
    ColinR <rail@greystane.shetland.co.uk> wibbled:
    On 14/05/2025 14:10, Tweed wrote:
    Wind has managed 40% this month. It may well be that wind is currently >>>>> artificially constrained so we donrCOt have a repeat of the Spanish
    problem.
    Both wind and solar tend to be followers of grid frequency, ie their >>>>> electronics look at the frequency and match it. Conventional plant sustains

    the frequency by virtue of the inertia of the generators. If you donrCOt >> keep

    enough inertial generation the system trips out in the event of a fault and

    a sudden dip of frequency. The renewables notice the dip, see it is out of
    spec and turn off.

    Another way to overcome this is to convert the AC from the turbines to >>>> DC when frequency does not pose a problem. This is done with the new

    No reason the turbines couldn't produce DC directly,




    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of >> application?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W1100W1200W-Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8



    Mind you, that's a pretty special item. I quote from the above link:

    Colour: 1000w
    Engine type: 4 Stroke
    Ignition system type: Magneto
    Frequency: 50 Hz
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  • From Muttley@Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Wed Jul 16 11:22:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:51:11 +0100
    Peter Able <stuck@home.com> wibbled:
    On 15/07/2025 18:55, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
    On 15 May 2025 11:01:43 GMT
    Marland <gemehabal@btinternet.co.uk> wibbled:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:57:41 +0100
    ColinR <rail@greystane.shetland.co.uk> wibbled:
    On 14/05/2025 14:10, Tweed wrote:
    Wind has managed 40% this month. It may well be that wind is currently >>>>>> artificially constrained so we donrCOt have a repeat of the Spanish
    problem.
    Both wind and solar tend to be followers of grid frequency, ie their >>>>>> electronics look at the frequency and match it. Conventional plant >sustains

    the frequency by virtue of the inertia of the generators. If you donrCOt >>> keep

    enough inertial generation the system trips out in the event of a fault >and

    a sudden dip of frequency. The renewables notice the dip, see it is out >of
    spec and turn off.

    Another way to overcome this is to convert the AC from the turbines to >>>>> DC when frequency does not pose a problem. This is done with the new

    No reason the turbines couldn't produce DC directly,




    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of >>> application?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W1100W1200
    W-Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8



    Mind you, that's a pretty special item. I quote from the above link:

    Colour: 1000w
    Engine type: 4 Stroke
    Ignition system type: Magneto
    Frequency: 50 Hz

    Looks like someone fucked up the data. Probably wouldn't buy from them if
    they can't even get the basics correct.

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  • From Peter Able@stuck@home.com to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Wed Jul 16 14:35:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    On 16/07/2025 12:22, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:51:11 +0100
    Peter Able <stuck@home.com> wibbled:
    On 15/07/2025 18:55, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
    On 15 May 2025 11:01:43 GMT
    Marland <gemehabal@btinternet.co.uk> wibbled:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:57:41 +0100
    ColinR <rail@greystane.shetland.co.uk> wibbled:
    On 14/05/2025 14:10, Tweed wrote:
    Wind has managed 40% this month. It may well be that wind is currently >>>>>>> artificially constrained so we donrCOt have a repeat of the Spanish >>>> problem.
    Both wind and solar tend to be followers of grid frequency, ie their >>>>>>> electronics look at the frequency and match it. Conventional plant
    sustains

    the frequency by virtue of the inertia of the generators. If you donrCOt
    keep

    enough inertial generation the system trips out in the event of a fault >> and

    a sudden dip of frequency. The renewables notice the dip, see it is out >> of
    spec and turn off.

    Another way to overcome this is to convert the AC from the turbines to >>>>>> DC when frequency does not pose a problem. This is done with the new >>>>>
    No reason the turbines couldn't produce DC directly,




    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of
    application?


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W1100W1200
    W-Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8



    Mind you, that's a pretty special item. I quote from the above link:

    Colour: 1000w
    Engine type: 4 Stroke
    Ignition system type: Magneto
    Frequency: 50 Hz

    Looks like someone fucked up the data. Probably wouldn't buy from them if they can't even get the basics correct.

    Pretty typical of eBay items more technically complex than a matchstick.
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  • From Roland Perry@roland@perry.uk to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Fri Jul 18 08:07:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    In message <10564ls$79i3$1@dont-email.me>, at 17:55:08 on Tue, 15 Jul
    2025, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org remarked:

    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of >>application?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W1100W1200W
    -Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8

    Oh look! A split URL :(
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  • From Tweed@usenet.tweed@gmail.com to uk.railway,uk.transport.london on Fri Jul 18 08:04:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
    In message <10564ls$79i3$1@dont-email.me>, at 17:55:08 on Tue, 15 Jul
    2025, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org remarked:

    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of >>> application?

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W1100W1200W
    -Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8

    Oh look! A split URL :(

    Actually itrCOs not as presented by Amazon. They encode the space before
    -Motor correctly with %20. The %20 is perhaps a casualty of copy/paste.

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  • From Roland Perry@roland@perry.uk to uk.railway,uk.transport.london on Sat Jul 19 08:25:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    In message <105cv79$1ukul$1@dont-email.me>, at 08:04:57 on Fri, 18 Jul
    2025, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> remarked:
    Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
    In message <10564ls$79i3$1@dont-email.me>, at 17:55:08 on Tue, 15 Jul
    2025, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org remarked:

    Has technology moved on enough to allow brushless Dynamos for that sort of
    application?


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Permanent-Brushless-Generator-48V60V800W1000W >>>1100W1200W
    -Motor-1000w/dp/B0CNZ6CGQ8

    Oh look! A split URL :(

    Actually itrCOs not as presented by Amazon.

    Oddly enough, people here are having it presented "by Usenet", not
    Amazon.

    They encode the space before -Motor correctly with %20. The %20 is
    perhaps a casualty of copy/paste.

    Excuses, excuses.
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  • From Recliner@recliner.usenet@gmail.com to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Thu Jul 24 08:11:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Mon, 12 May 2025 15:46:30 GMT
    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wibbled:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/12/london-underground-power-cut-crippl
    es-tube-delays/

    4:27pm
    More London Tube and rail lines affected by power outages
    The effects of the power outage appear to be spreading across the Tube
    network.

    First heathrow now this. The power supply resilience in this country seems to
    be somewhere between dreadful and non existent.


    Put your distribution assets in the hands of monopoly private operators together with an ineffective regulator and you get this. Just like the
    water industry. The Heathrow transformer that caught fire was 57 years old.

    Follow-up on the cost of the Heathrow shutdown:

    Fire near Heathrow costs airport tens of millions of pounds

    https://www.thetimes.com/article/3a5337e6-e4ea-45a2-bdd0-cdc1c2f79b74?shareToken=662168dea7ab6cb5c2be40be736a078b

    ThatrCOs just the cost to the airport. I donrCOt suppose it includes the cost to the airlines, passengers and freight operators.
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  • From Coffee@martin.coffee@round-midnight.org.uk to uk.transport.london,uk.railway on Thu Jul 24 20:20:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    On 24/07/2025 09:11, Recliner wrote:
    Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Mon, 12 May 2025 15:46:30 GMT
    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wibbled:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/12/london-underground-power-cut-crippl
    es-tube-delays/

    4:27pm
    More London Tube and rail lines affected by power outages
    The effects of the power outage appear to be spreading across the Tube >>>> network.

    First heathrow now this. The power supply resilience in this country seems to
    be somewhere between dreadful and non existent.


    Put your distribution assets in the hands of monopoly private operators
    together with an ineffective regulator and you get this. Just like the
    water industry. The Heathrow transformer that caught fire was 57 years old.

    Follow-up on the cost of the Heathrow shutdown:

    Fire near Heathrow costs airport tens of millions of pounds

    https://www.thetimes.com/article/3a5337e6-e4ea-45a2-bdd0-cdc1c2f79b74?shareToken=662168dea7ab6cb5c2be40be736a078b

    ThatrCOs just the cost to the airport. I donrCOt suppose it includes the cost to the airlines, passengers and freight operators.

    It's the airport's fault. They had three different supplies available
    but chose to take the risk of not installing equipment fully utilise them.
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  • From Recliner@recliner.usenet@gmail.com to uk.railway,uk.transport.london on Thu Jul 24 19:35:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.transport.london

    Coffee <martin.coffee@round-midnight.org.uk> wrote:
    On 24/07/2025 09:11, Recliner wrote:
    Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
    <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:
    On Mon, 12 May 2025 15:46:30 GMT
    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> wibbled:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/12/london-underground-power-cut-crippl
    es-tube-delays/

    4:27pm
    More London Tube and rail lines affected by power outages
    The effects of the power outage appear to be spreading across the Tube >>>>> network.

    First heathrow now this. The power supply resilience in this country seems to
    be somewhere between dreadful and non existent.


    Put your distribution assets in the hands of monopoly private operators
    together with an ineffective regulator and you get this. Just like the
    water industry. The Heathrow transformer that caught fire was 57 years old. >>
    Follow-up on the cost of the Heathrow shutdown:

    Fire near Heathrow costs airport tens of millions of pounds

    https://www.thetimes.com/article/3a5337e6-e4ea-45a2-bdd0-cdc1c2f79b74?shareToken=662168dea7ab6cb5c2be40be736a078b

    ThatrCOs just the cost to the airport. I donrCOt suppose it includes the cost
    to the airlines, passengers and freight operators.

    It's the airport's fault. They had three different supplies available
    but chose to take the risk of not installing equipment fully utilise them.


    Yes, I agree. WhatrCOs more, they shut down the whole airport despite some parts being supplied throughout.

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