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Report Section 3: Discussion of Recommendations

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Report Section 3: Discussion of Recommendations

Investigation of Some Trouble in the Generating System of the Commonwealth Edison Co. - PDF pages 12-16, lines 721-1138

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Steinmetz identifies the severe symptom: after the short circuit cleared, major station sections did not promptly return to normal voltage because machines apparently drifted out of synchronism. He argues for local power limitation while preserving enough synchronizing power.

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Read this as an early engineering treatment of non-steady electrical behavior: sudden charge, discharge, wave travel, damping, and surge stress.

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