On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:01:16 +0100, Allthumbs wrote:

Not answering your question, but I heard on the radio this
morning,
from someone from EDF, that if your power is off for more than 18
hours, you can claim £50 from them - so that should be £50 towards
the
generator, which may mean you can afford a better one!

we should get £100 then :-)

Didn't you just say you where getting power for 3hrs every now and
again? The "pay compensation clock" will be reset back to zero each
time the power comes back... It has to be off continusly for so many
hours before they pay out. With a large number of customers affected
for a long time it's cheaper for them to send engineers round
manually switching feeds to keep that compensation clock below the
threshold...

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Cheers
Dave.