Dave Liquorice
wibbled on Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:33

The last two early mornings we have had a short power cuts, one
yesterday at 01:44:08 and two today at 01:44:55 and 01:45:15 each
time just for a few seconds, long enough to think "oh I need to find
a torch"...

Our power is normally very good but three cuts in the wee small hours
and almost at exactly the same time is suspicious. There have also
been a noticable number of momentary glitchs in the power as well
over the last few days, mainly in the evening, something else we
don't normally have.

Any one else noticing similar things?


Could be a fault or an overload. The fact it comes back in a matter of
seconds is down to the auto-recloser they have on some of the substations.
Those usually try to close the breaker up to 3 times before giving up,
(though pikeys have been caught out before by assuming it was safe to nick
the copper after the 3rd attempt).

I wouldn't bother the leccy co for one episode, but if it keeps happening,
best to ring them - there may be something going on they need to look at.

--
Tim Watts

You know you need more insulation when the snow blanket on the roof makes
the house 3 degrees warmer...