Sentence examples for reduce voltage from inspiring English sources

The utility's misconduct, the court said, included poor staffing decisions and its employees' failure to reduce voltage after lightning hit the electrical system.

In Manhattan, the company had to reduce voltage by 5 percent to three networks downtown that have had power flowing again since the end of last week.

Of particular concern are giant custom-built transformers that increase the voltage of electricity to levels suited for bulk transmission and then reduce voltage for distribution to customers.

Finally the unsymmetrical operation of DSRs to reduce voltage imbalance in the network is considered.

It is observed that ground-wire corona serves to reduce voltage peaks and delay the occurrence of flashover.

Furthermore, by means of design of experiment (DOE) method, permanent magnet is optimized to reduce voltage waveform distortion.

Con Ed reduced voltage by 8percentt in that area, between Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue and 110th Street and 78th Street, where it has 76,000 customers.

By then, the strain was showing: Con Ed reduced voltage in parts of all five boroughs and several towns in Westchester.

Con Edison also reduced voltage by 5 percent in several neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn while repairing equipment in those areas.

Updated, 12 04 p.m. | Consolidated Edison restored full power to about 136,000 customers in Queens and Westchester County by noon Friday, several hours after reducing voltage to more than 100,000 households there overnight.

Even where the power stayed on, television sets flickered, washing machines halted midcycle and fan blades turned at lower-than-usual speeds all day as Con Ed reduced voltage in the area by 8percenttoto prevent the power failure from spreading and to allow its workers to make the repairs.