> The thing about a "brownout" is that service goes away, and then it comes back - for a while. I don't want to beat a dead horse at this point, but that's bas

> The thing about a "brownout" is that service goes away, and then it comes back - for a while. I don't want to beat a dead horse at this point, but that's basically a planned blackout. It'd be similar to a power company cutting off a residence's power for a couple hours to remind them to pay their overdue bill. I can't see that being correctly called a brownout.