Load shedding

[Marq]

Simple rules to follow, when you fire up your generator, make sure:

All the circuit breakers in the house are down
Plugs are switched off or pulled out


Decide what you want on, in my case I normal switch on all my lights, the fridge and freezer.

You forgot the first thing on your to do list, which is......rewire house so that relevant stuff is on same breaker or on on its own breaker that you can control.

[irneb]

Eskom says "didnt affect anybody just yet'.

It's called the ostrich syndrome! If you bury your head so you can't see / hear the affects your actions cause - then "they didn't happen". Simple politics: repeat the lie enough times so it becomes a truth.

[Marq]

I think the Green Arrow has the right solution.
They have failed the Country, never mind the city.

[Dave A]

We were down twice yesterday - once in the morning from 10h00 - 12h00 and in the evening 16h00 to 18h30. Four hours out of ones day, may not affect Eskom where they do FA, but here in the suburbs stuff actually happens you morons.

Ditto.

And +1.

I also got some interesting feedback from my sparkies in the field yesterday. We were getting voltage readings as high as 248V on single phase and 415V on 3 phase installations during the rolling blackouts.

[Marq]

Has it or hasnt it stopped?
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-afri...7#.Uxlvu_na700

So some suburbs in Pretoria and Jhb were down for 2 hours. We were down for 4 hours in our area.

I had this theory before (in 2008 and 2010) which was that the Ethekwini Municipality are pandering to the anc showing them great support and doing this at the expense of the DA lead areas in Durban.

If you look at the Durban load shedding schedules - the DA areas pick up the load mainly in the evenings from 16h00 right through to 22h00 in two hour spots over the week. A fairer way would be to schedule black outs across the municipality to different times so that everybody can have a chance of coming home to a cold supper and no evening tv.
In 2010 at the time of switching on, testing and playing the initial warm up games, at the new stadium, Durban North was load shedded to accommodate the extra pull on the system. Sitting in the dark with a stadium lit up like a volcano on your doorstep is rather obvious.
A couple of accusatory emails later it all stopped with big denial. Yeah right.

[Marq]

I also got some interesting feedback from my sparkies in the field yesterday. We were getting voltage readings as high as 248V on single phase and 415V on 3 phase installations during the rolling blackouts.

Dave - To us non sparkies out here....what does this mean?

[ians]

They dried that coal quick

[wynn]

This is my attitude!

[pmbguy]

I received 3 dead printers this morning already, not a surprise, I have noticed over the years that when the power goes off I often get some surge damaged machines in the workshop. Power supplies and main boards are expensive, from these 3 machines only one might be economically repaired. I know it’s probably the power failure, or more accurately its return because I know all 3 of the machines did not switch on today- after yesterday.

Can one prove it’s caused by mesko? (eskom).Is there any recourse available for uninsured clients or insurance companies?

[irneb]

Can one prove it’s caused by mesko? (eskom).Is there any recourse available for uninsured clients or insurance companies?

I'm sorry no, I don't think so. I fear there's some fine-print in your elec connection contract which exemplifies Eskom from any damage cause by their supply inconsistencies.

For me, I've usually got my home PC's and most electronic equipment behind a protection device. But that's mostly because of lightning here - surges I'm not too sure if they dampen those. Although I've had several UPS's die on me due to Eskom's poor quality power, I see them as sacrificial - much cheaper to replace a UPS than a PC motherboard, CPU, etc.