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Most of the components don't have a meaningful "maximum load". There's a load with 40-year life, a load with 10-year life, and a load with 160-year life (and ob
by coryrc 4y ago
Most of the components don't have a meaningful "maximum load". There's a load with 40-year life, a load with 10-year life, and a load with 160-year life (and obviously this is a continuous curve). It's okay to spend some time at 10-year life load if you can spend more time at the 160-year load than the typical model expects.
- kragen 4y agothings like transformers have a 1-minute load which, if you don't exceed it, they'll last 40 years, but if you exceed it significantly, they'll often catch on fire and explode within a few minutes it's true that there's probably a load right at the rated load which will gradually cook the transformer over the course of 10 years or so, but that's a pretty narrow window that's the kind of capacity that needs to be expanded
- coryrc 4y agoIt's a far wider window than you think.