Huge wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:47:44 +0000, PoP wrote:

But so what? The likelihood is that it will rarely if ever go into
deep discharge! Most power outages last only a short time (an hour
or two), which the car battery can easily hold out for.

Try telling that to the last few people to be reconnected 48hrs after
any major storm...

The last time we were off for 96 hours.

24/7 kept telling us they were very busy and they'd get to us, but
when we got really ****ed off and started calling every few hours and
the engineers finally came, they said they'd only just heard about
us. Next time, I shall call every 60 minutes until the power is
reconnected.

Just had a 30 min outage here (Spalding), UPS barely troubled running Tivo,
DTT decoder, PC, router and 1 CFL lightbulb. Gas hob carried on through with
no disturbance, unlike my parents' which cuts the flame back when the leccy
goes off. Heating went off but that's no biggie, there's always a few more
layers of clothing that can go on before I start feeling cold.

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James...
www.jameshart.co.uk