If line voltage is varying excessively, then dimming and brightening of incandescent bulbs would be quite obvious. If voltage is too low and not varying, then numbers from a 3.5 digit multimeter (=A315) would make it obvious or provide numbers to post here (so that replies can be useful).
Yes that monitors the "power" your using, not the volts supplied!....
yes, of course, silly me
VH.
In article , The Wanderer writes
Thanks for the various replies across the thread.
In the end it was four times, it went off again after I posted :-(
The weather around here last Friday was not unusual, a bit of wind, but not more than "moderate", some rain, but nothing approaching an excessive amount. All in all, not the best of days weather wise, but nothing even approaching excessive.
The schedule ran something like :
0510 (by cooker clock) power off (according to Central Networks it went off at 0630) 0815 Power comes back on0915 Power off, not for long (I went out, for 25 minutes and it was on when I got back)
During the day it was on, but the kettle was slow to boil, and bulbs were flashing and fluorescent tubes won't start.
1845 The power went off again for about 3 minutes.2235 Off again for about 3 minutes.
During the day, the problem was supposedly an overhead HV fault at a local sub station. The last one a problem at a different substation. When I phoned in to find out what was happening I was told that the fault would take 4 hours to fix.
That is on top of a 6 hr outage back in March and 16 hours last back end, with others of shorter intervals.
Sort of. I've been here for 6 and a half years and I've had more outages than at anytime since the three day week.
I do mention the outages to them at a regular basis, the reason I started this thread was to see if there was a simple way I could automate the monitoring.
I do, and they don't really seem interested. The first sub-station they claimed to have problems with always seems to be the source of the troubles.
I had a nasty feeling that might be the case.
Adrian
Stop faffing around with them. They sound almost as bad as EDF;-(
Any of your neighbours getting the same problem?. If yes, then get them to ratchet up the vitriol to central Notworks,. If just yourself put in a !written! complaint about your supply, and demand them to put in a recording device otherwise your going to take it further ..
Like complain to the regulator, media, set your mother in law on them...no ! thats prolly a bit harsh but you get the idea I hope;!....
In article , tony sayer writes
The whole street (about 30 houses) has the problem. The area in general seems to suffer, but I think to a lesser extent (when our power is off on a night, the houses that back onto us usually have their lights on).
Whilst it is almost always flagged up as being the same substation that has the fault, I'm not sure that I go along with this, if that were the case then the number of people off would be in the thousands, not the reported tens. If this substation really is the problem, then you would think by now they would have got fed up with fixing it and be doing something about it.
Given the high journalistic standards of our local rag, it will probably be reported as a burst water main. The regulator may be a next step, MiL, you have an evil mind (I like it), however since that post is currently vacant, I can't go down that route.
Adrian
Nah, first move is to write - yes get it in writing - to Central Networks, asking in vire of the local history of outages in your area, which you have repeatedly contacted them about, what are thy proposing to do to improve the security of supply in line with the ESQCR [1]
[1] Link here to the regulationIn article , Adrian Simpson writes
It could affect either a few or many it depends on the transformer capacity and other factors. But the amount of time its been going on I think that power company should be doing something more about it by now or at least keeping you better informed.
I should agitate with your neighbours re the problem.
Remember that The squeakiest hinge gets the most Oil;!....
Lucky U;)....
In article , Adrian Simpson writes
As a follow up to this, I wrote to Central Networks, who, to their credit, attempted to contact me straight away. Here endeth the good news. According to their records, the recent outages have all been due to different problems, rather than one persistent source of trouble, so since they seem to have a number of "one offs", they don't see it as a problem. It seems that I'm a lucky person, only having three significant problems in the last 7 months, some are well into double figures. I think I shall have to start keeping some more detailed records.
Adrian
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