Power Cuts
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mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
About once a year out here, last one was for about 12 hours.
Chilternrides
New Member
Not answering that; it's bound to bring one on if I do!
We get them 3-4 times a year. They usually come in spates where you'll get up to ten in a year. A few years ago had a lot for a couple of years. When I lived in York some bits of there seemed incredibly prone to powercuts in the city centre. I believe that round here maybe a quarter or so of the cuts are down to people breaking into power sub stations and stealing copper. A number of substations have had that here the last 12 months.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
Two days ago.
The one before that was just after we'd moved in and had our house rewired. It started with intermittent failures - the only reason you'd notice them was that the computer would restart itself and all the clocks in the house would need resetting - then it got worse and worse until one winter night where it failed completely. I went downstairs with a torch to investigate the fusebox, only to find that the ceiling light in the lounge would flash on and off at regular intervals when the electrics were switched off at the fusebox. When switched on, nothing worked at all. The next day I called the chap who'd done the rewire (who I don't think believed me) and he called EON who fiddled around in the substation next door to the house. It's been fine ever since, until two days ago.
The one before that was just after we'd moved in and had our house rewired. It started with intermittent failures - the only reason you'd notice them was that the computer would restart itself and all the clocks in the house would need resetting - then it got worse and worse until one winter night where it failed completely. I went downstairs with a torch to investigate the fusebox, only to find that the ceiling light in the lounge would flash on and off at regular intervals when the electrics were switched off at the fusebox. When switched on, nothing worked at all. The next day I called the chap who'd done the rewire (who I don't think believed me) and he called EON who fiddled around in the substation next door to the house. It's been fine ever since, until two days ago.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
sounds like a iffy PME connection to me.
we get them a lot less now i have had the cutout in the house worked on and the fuse carrier replaced ( pre rectification cut out
) was causing a masive current draw with the arcing , only noticed one winter evening when wifey had the cooker shoer all the light on except the kitchen and i could see the blue arc colour under the stairs. had started to melt the pitch in the cutout!! EDF didn't want to replace the cutout at te time and were going to arrange for a new one to be fited "at some point inthe future" . I could arrange for one of the enginers in work to do it but its working fine at the moment and don't fix what aint broke !!
We get them regularly in our estate. The town has only had one or two in the last 3 years. But my estate has about one a month 
My UPS logs show two, in the last 30 days. Rubbish.
The most annoying part is: The UPS protects my computers, but there is no protection on my ISP's equipment in the street. So I still lose internet access.
Thankfully its never gone out for 12 hours. They are always 5-10 minute outages.
Edit: The Missus has just reminded me, one of those outages was caused by lightning. I suppose I can't complain about that.
My UPS logs show two, in the last 30 days. Rubbish.
The most annoying part is: The UPS protects my computers, but there is no protection on my ISP's equipment in the street. So I still lose internet access.
Thankfully its never gone out for 12 hours. They are always 5-10 minute outages.
Edit: The Missus has just reminded me, one of those outages was caused by lightning. I suppose I can't complain about that.
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
We get them regularly in our estate. The town has only had one or two in the last 3 years. But my estate has about one a month
My UPS logs show two, in the last 30 days. Rubbish.
The most annoying part is: The UPS protects my computers, but there is no protection on my ISP's equipment in the street. So I still lose internet access.
Thankfully its never gone out for 12 hours. They are always 5-10 minute outages.
Edit: The Missus has just reminded me, one of those outages was caused by lightning. I suppose I can't complain about that.
Hardly any where I live now.
2-3 a year, or more, in my last house (in Harlow, so not so far from Bongman) - also in a new estate!
What really pissed me off was when I rang to tell the elec company the power was off I got the threatening 'if it turns out to be a fault in your wiring you could be charge £lots for the engineer call-out). I started just getting lots of candles out and a book, and waiting for someone else to report it.
G-Zero
Guru
- Location
- Kirkcudbright, SW Scotland
2 to 3.
Similar to Bongman, our estate seems to more prone than the rest of the area, especially during the winter months.
Similar to Bongman, our estate seems to more prone than the rest of the area, especially during the winter months.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Aw!Commiserations! Steer clear of spoilers until the highlights tonight then,
That fella on the bike won it
Melonfish
Evil Genius in training.
- Location
- Warrington, UK
maybe once every 5 years or so, usually a fault in the local area or workmen unplugging the wrong thing (like in work on wed, when one of our engineers unplugged the internet for the entire building.....)
