Tomblands Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 Coincided with the end of The Royle Family and the kettles going on. Timed at 9.59! Aye, and as a result the Sky Plus recording failed. Stupid electricity for losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 You can get a device called a UPS (Uninterupted Power Supply) for your more sensitive electrical items. It consists of a small battery pack (depends on how long you need an alternative supply for), an inverter and some electronics. If the power were to fluctuate, it will take over for as long as there is charge in the batteries (which are charged when there is a mains supply). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 UPS is a good solution but be careful to pick one with a rating adequate for the systems you are wanting to support. At the minimum I'd suggest ensuring that sensitive equipment has a surge suppressor inline before the power. Belkin make a decent surge suppressing multi-block which also has in and out ports for telephone lines so saving your broadband router from being spiked down that connection too. Amazon have a relatively cheap 700VA unit from APC which should protect equipment drawing up to a total of 3 Amps. The surge suppressor block I use from Belkin is also on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 Power outage around 11am today. Bit of a bugga! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muckleflugga Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Had a long power cut a south end this afternoon followed by a short one this evening, may I say a huge thankyou to any hydro guys who were out in horrendous conditions fixing the fault and getting our power back on. i bet they don't get a fraction of our glorious leaders in the councils wages and are dam well more deserving. A big pat on the back to you all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Power was off sometime during the night. all our clocks etc needed re-setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Um, something is seriously odd with our electricity supply this morning. The lights all went out and the fan heater in the kitchen turned off. We checked the fuse box(?) and all the switches were on. If you switch a light on it takes ages for it to actually turn on and it'll only shine dimly. There isn't enough juice to run the radio, yet the broadband and telephone seem to be fine. Is this happening to other folk or is it just our house and we should call in someone to fix it before all the storage heaters stop working and we freeze to death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbahenry Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 hi power is down on voltage its at 110v when it should be 220v so things wll be doing strange things , power probs in vidlin and laxo and whalsay and by the looks of things eid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 ^Thanks tabbahenry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlady Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 We've been off in the town this morning, but it's back on now, it's surely going to take until half 8 to get everyone back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianboy1 Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Just spoke t other half she was having same prob in Brae so it seems t be wide spread ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 according to hydro there's a secondary fault in voe and they're working on it.Khit how come you've got power? No one else has! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 ^ it's been off for an hour, but came back on just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Seen men woking at a pole at the brae end of the airportIt looks like a big job to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 ^^ Its a sod of a job in this weather I'm sure, but the Hydro have made plenty of profit off everybody this winter, so it would set them well to pay plenty to any poor beggar thats having to shimmy up and down poles or hent ower freezing wires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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