Daddy: System load is system load. But if you have a running system, it "climbs" up with 1 channel. I actually never tested to load from INL a system "live" (I have a simulator only with all channels), but when/if you have a running system, it works with 1 chanel. What happens with this kind of configration in practice, is completely unknown, never seen this outside lab env.
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