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On 29/10/17 19:11, Mick wrote: |
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> BTW, perhaps in UK cities general and unpredicted power cuts are relatively |
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> rare and brownouts don't occur often. Out in the sticks the infrastructure is |
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> so neglected power cuts and brown outs can be a weekly occurrence. I just |
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> bought yet another UPS to protect my TV and media devices, having suffered |
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> catastrophic failures in the past. :-( |
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That looks like infrastructure failure, not plain insufficient power |
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which is what we are apparently heading for. Certainly the "explosions" |
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one is "old news" - where I worked suffered this sort of failure in the |
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early 90's. |
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The story as I understood it was some crooks went down a manhole to try |
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and blow their way into a Lloyds Bank vault. Unfortunately, between them |
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and the vault was a - somewhat overloaded - 50KV supply line. When the |
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charge went off, this shorted for some 5 miles of cable :-( |
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It's too long ago now, I think it happened on a Sunday night so we came |
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in to work to no power. They got an emergency rig up and running Monday |
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afternoon, one phase back by about Wednesday, and everything back to |
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normal the following Monday. This was the Kings Road in London! |
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But the new feature is just "not enough power" - that really will be a |
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problem! |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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