Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

[Commander Kinsey]

Only a heatpump can give you more out than you put in. Just think about it.

Not what I heard - refusing to buy from Russia and Russia refusing to sell it, etc.

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Are you telling me that never happened?

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[shakes head in disbelief]

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An amp clamp is a wonderful device. Wrap it round a meter tail and observe the change as someone turns things on and off. I just did this to measure my parents' oil boiler electricity consumption to fit an appropriately sized backup battery.

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Sounds like the thermostat is f***ed, will your landlord replace it?

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It's 2 foot deep, 6 foot tall, 6 foot wide, has 100 CPU cores and 12 GPUs. Total RAM about 300GB.

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An appropriate breaker or fuse should be present to protect all wiring and transformers. The worst one I saw was where I used to live, next door was a very old house with the cable going in through the eaves of the roof. It came loose and shorted in his attic. Enough to cause sparks to fly from the pole mounted transformer across the road for a considerable time, and lots of loud buzzing. Nothing tripped, his house burnt down. He didn't give a shit, he got a lot off the insurance. I hope the insurance fined the f****it electricity supplier (and the f****it fire brigade who had no key to turn off the supply, and no equipment/skills to put out a live fire).

It's all in parallel. Three live cables (one per phase, each with neutral/earth armour plating) come out of the transformer and run all the way along the street under the pavement. They branch to each house. It would be difficult to add stuff like you suggest.

I sorted it myself with a UPS for anything delicate, which lowers the voltage accordingly.

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How can the law permit you being charged 5 times too much?

Shit, my meter is digital. They changed it several years ago when I went to two-rate supply.

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Not true. The average annual electricity bill is £2500. You can't spend that with a fridge.

Why two? Why not one?

I believe the farmers can create three phase, but that could also be expensive.

[Commander Kinsey]

No, in the UK we have proper power. One voltage, no messing about with extra conductors.

[Carlos E.R.]

We never bought it from Russia, anyway. Just a testimonial 5% or so.

[Carlos E.R.]

Never heard of it.

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The frequency I've seen drop by about 0.2Hz regularly, and sometimes about 0.5Hz. That would be a change in turntable speed of 1 in 250 to 1 in 100. I wonder if that would be noticeable by ear? I guess it would when it happens, but not if it was gradual.

They have to average the frequency at 50 for the sake of clocks (my mother has a very old wall clock using it, and I think the timers in meter boxes to switch to economy 7 use it?). But I don't know what the limits are for a short period.

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Are you telling me the media used hype, exaggeration, and possibly even downright lies?

so what is the current shortage about then?

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Hence the very tiny kHz ones in SMPS.

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Does this mean the power station generators spin faster over there? Or just have more coils?

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I'm in the UK, but mine isn't grounded at my house, I rely on the ground at the transformer. But it would be difficult to lose as it's the same armoured cable as the live.

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Is that pole actually in someone's driveway?!

Some new (about 10 year old) houses were built near me. They have everything underground except the phone wires. Did they forget or what?