Start of the power cuts?

Three power outages last night - West Bridgeford area of Nottingham. And only 7 miles from Ratcliffe power station tut tut (I know it doesn't work like that) :-)

Reply to
jake
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Must be very local to you, I've checked a UPS in West Bridgford (no "e") and it had no outages ...

Reply to
Andy Burns

My mother had friend in a remotish rural area which no mains electricity in the 1950s; yet there was a pylon (132kV) in the filed at the bottom of the garden. She was most aggrieved.

Reply to
charles

No we are probably seeing a lack of investment in the infrastructure again. Gone are the days when folk did lots of inspections, they seem to wait till it fails then fix it. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

Maybe she could have nicked some leccy by induction.

Bill

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Bill Wright

Knickers to that; I'd have got the jump leads out.

Reply to
cd

What did the DNO have to say when you rang 'em up to report the outage? Power goes here, if it's dark get the lanterns lit then onto the DNO. Some times the report from the automatics arrives with them as I'm on the phone or another call being taken in the background refers to a pole transformer on fire further up the line. That did happen...

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

That was the cause of the South London power cut a few years ago.

The other factor is that they used to do that work in the summer when some of the distribution circuits could be isolated because the load was low enough to be carried on fewer circuits. However, in many urban areas, summer loading is now higher than winter loading because of aircon, and there isn't the scope or spare capacity to isolate circuits so easily.

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

Certainly would have made you jump . . .

Bill

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Bill Wright

Had a short outage overnight a couple of days ago (flashing timer on cooker). Half way through the day it became apparent that the hot water cylinder was running cool and investigation showed that the control box of the Vaillant was no longer powering the diverter valve on demand from cylinder stat.

Everything else "electronic" seems to be working OK in the boiler and the rest of the house, but it seems a funny coincidence.

Reply to
newshound

Nothing like the aggrievement you feel when comparing the cost of a single-phase feed with three phase when obviously most of the cost is in the poles and labour to string the wires.

Reply to
Windmill

Don't you mean 'not fix it' ?

Reply to
Windmill

With 132 kV, capacitive coupling might have worked.

Reply to
Windmill

Gotta laugh - today we had a glossy from Western Power Distribution. In it they advertised their brilliant new plan - to issue everyone with a luminious fridge magnet with WPD's 'phone number on it! Brilliant - just brilliant. The Glossy is headed POWER CUT? and they say "AT WPD we want to make it as easy as possible for our customers to contact us if the power goes off". Oh goodie. But this is all rather ominious.

ps Andy W. Bridgeford suffered 3 outages last Sat night circa 19:30. 1st in Wilford lane. The last two knocked out the TBI and some of Trent Bridge area. Yes I was in the Trent Bridge Inn and everything went black - but I wasn't on Guiness!

Reply to
jake

The UPS I checked on is further out of town, NG2 7FA

:-)

Reply to
Andy Burns

Let's hope that customers still have a hard-wired phone to hand then!

Chris

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Chris J Dixon

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