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) :-)
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9 years ago
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) :-)
Must be very local to you, I've checked a UPS in West Bridgford (no "e") and it had no outages ...
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.
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
Maybe she could have nicked some leccy by induction.
Bill
Knickers to that; I'd have got the jump leads out.
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...
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.
Certainly would have made you jump . . .
Bill
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.
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.
Don't you mean 'not fix it' ?
With 132 kV, capacitive coupling might have worked.
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!
The UPS I checked on is further out of town, NG2 7FA
:-)
Let's hope that customers still have a hard-wired phone to hand then!
Chris
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