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  2. South African energy crisis - Wikipedia

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    [23] [24] To improve power supply and reliability, the 1998 report recommended restructuring Eskom into separate electricity generation and power transmission businesses. [25] Despite the warnings of the 1998 report and requests by Eskom to be allowed to increase capacity, the national government took no action. [ 26 ]

  3. Brownout (electricity) - Wikipedia

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    A switched-mode power supply will be affected if the brownout voltage is lower than the minimum input voltage of the power supply. As the input voltage falls, the current draw will increase to maintain the same output voltage and current, until such a point that the power supply malfunctions or its under-voltage protection kicks in and disables ...

  4. Dumsor - Wikipedia

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    By 2015, Ghana experienced an unprecedented days and nights of blackouts because of acute electricity supply. The term Dumsor is used to denote a period of a permanently erratic power supply under the NDC administration when Ghanaian generating capacity by 2015 went all-time low 400-600 megawatts, less than Ghana needed. [8]

  5. Power supply - Wikipedia

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    An integrated power supply is one that shares a common printed circuit board with its load. An external power supply, AC adapter or power brick, is a power supply located in the load's AC power cord that plugs into a wall outlet; a wall wart is an external supply integrated with the outlet plug itself. These are popular in consumer electronics ...

  6. Crowbar (circuit) - Wikipedia

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    A crowbar circuit is an electrical circuit used for preventing an overvoltage or surge condition of a power supply unit from damaging the circuits attached to the power supply. It operates by putting a short circuit or low resistance path across the voltage output (V o ), like dropping a crowbar across the output terminals of the power supply.

  7. Got new electronics for the holidays? Here's what to do first

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    In order to protect and enhance them, it's important that you have some quality accessories, like a laptop bag or backpack, messenger bag, laptop sleeve, portable hard drive, headphones, webcam ...

  8. A series of drone sightings over military bases across the country have renewed concerns that the US doesn’t have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that ...

  9. Alexander Golod - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Golod is a Ukrainian former defense contractor and current scientist and alternative healer, focusing on pyramid research.He has theorized that pyramid structures have energy forces that bring several benefits, for both man and the environment.