Volts

Sep 28, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 21 Replies

Well looks like the volts have gone off definitively now. Been a bit flaky all evening. No call from UK Power networks yet, though.


Off at 10.30 last night, back ot 06.20.

The little electrons that run your lights and such.

my volts haven't gone off then ...

Volts is electron 'pressure', Amps is electron flow rate.

Well who's a lucky boy. We're at the end of a rural spur and there was a thunderstorm last night.

You are kidding?

A real thunderstorm? Of the sort we were promised would become hourly events because ClimateChange??

I've only seen one this year and that passed by several miles away.

Well I can't help that, you know. Off went the volts, after which the lights flickered twice as they tried to reset it. It coincided with the storm, which did seem short-lived but did include some extremely heavy rain for about 20 minutes. After which I was asleep.

We had one in Surrey last night - wentb on a fair length of time

Care to cite any reputable source for this claim?

You should start opening your eyes.

and resistance is ? ...

How exciting. My heavily loaded server did go down at one point in the year when the lights went dim for a second.

I might have heard a distant rumble.

resistance to electron flow....simples!

My server was OK as I have a UPS. But I figured I'd shut it all down anyway as I couldn't see anyone going out to fix it during a thunderstorm.

Isn't there a radius^4 term somewhere in that?

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