Why do outages occur? Electricity is supplied from the electricity generating station to the customer through a series of cables, transformers and circuit breakers. If a fault occurs at one or more points on this electrical system a circuit breaker may trip to turn off the power to protect the equipment from damage (or further damage) and to isolate any potential danger. Any customer who is downstream of the circuit breaker that trips will be without power until the fault is either isolated or corrected or power can be supplied from an alternative point on the electrical system.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:25:43 +0000
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