Volts

[Tim Streater]

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

[Tim Streater]

Off at 10.30 last night, back ot 06.20.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

what is a volts ? ...

[Jack Harry Teesdale]

The little electrons that run your lights and such.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

my volts haven't gone off then ...

[Andy Bennet]

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

[Tim Streater]

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

[The Natural Philosopher]

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.

[Tim Streater]

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.

[charles]

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

[Fredxx]

Care to cite any reputable source for this claim?

You should start opening your eyes.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

and resistance is ? ...

[Custos Custodum]

futile

[The Natural Philosopher]

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.

[The Natural Philosopher]

far OUT!

[The Natural Philosopher]

[Jack Harry Teesdale]

resistance to electron flow....simples!

[Tim Streater]

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.

[Fredxx]

Beat me to it.

[Roger Hayter]

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