Power cuts everywhere

[James]

All this wind seems to be causing quite a headache for the grid.
not seen it this bad for a long time, if ever.

note, this is only for western power distribution area, I bet the whole country would look like a measles outbreak if there was a map of all areas.

 

[pc1966]

The grim results of high winds after righting (with a rope, as far as practical from the doorway). You can see why it is called the turdis, for something no bigger than an old police phone box it claims to have the capacity for 7 people!

 

[nicebutdim]

Nice ?





...but I need to use more words.

 

[littlespark]

“Turd-is”

good one.

Also needs some extra words here

 

[brianmoooore]

Haven't even seen a flicker of the lights, and the clock/radio in the bedroom that usually starts to flash 12.00 when the power fails for anything over a millisecond was still showing the correct time this morning.
Missus's favourite holly tree is lying on its side though.

 

[BiddeldyBwah]

The grim results of high winds after righting (with a rope, as far as practical from the doorway). You can see why it is called the turdis, for something no bigger than an old police phone box it claims to have the capacity for 7 people!
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I had a slash in one of these on site one day. Never again. You really don't wanna disturb what lays at the bottom.

 

[pc1966]

I had a slash in one of these on site one day. Never again. You really don't wanna disturb what lays at the bottom.

Alas I have an idea of what lies in the bottom of our one. My old compact camera

Slipped out of my pocket a few months ago while getting my overalls back on, I stupidly forgot to put the lid down before manoeuvring in a tight space.

 

[7029 dave]

Had outage today about 1 1/2 very high winds here.

 

[mattg4321]

Not much more than a stiff breeze here in Sussex.

Hope everyone is ok elsewhere though

 

[baldelectrician]

I have 3 UPS's and they went off on Friday night (beeped and went a but nutty)

I have one on my PC, one on my network rack mount (with router, nework hard drive) and one in my meter cupboard for my CCTV system

I even toyed with the idea of having my lights fed through my UPS so I would have lights in the event of a power cut as the NVR is next to my consumer unit.

 

[pirate]

No power cuts here, thankfully. I'm all-electric, so my back-up warmth is a bottle of Lagavulin or Fundador!

 

[pc1966]

Turns out one of our UPS did complain about "lack of bypass" at 19:02 on Friday and again around 08:33 on Saturday, but it did not declare "on battery" as that generates an email at the time.

Odd thing is we have 3 UPS, each off a different phase, but one is much older so reporting different, and the other did not complain. We more or less have a direct path to the local substation (110m from our area to the 100A feed switched-fuse off the 800A busbar chamber, in turn fed via about 20m of singles from the 500kVA transformer) so it is odd, but maybe it was seeing major disturbances just on the one phase.

Or the two UPS somehow have different internal thresholds, etc. They should be the same, but were bought about 6 months apart.

 

[Rockingit]

The grim results of high winds after righting (with a rope, as far as practical from the doorway). You can see why it is called the turdis, for something no bigger than an old police phone box it claims to have the capacity for 7 people!
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Don't normally tell 'tour stories', but this one is too good.....

Was V Fest 2014, late night after all the acts had finished and I was working on tour with Ben Howard whilst another old mate was working with Newton Faulkner and we were all parked up (tour busses) in the same compound as Ed Sheeran and his crew who we also all knew. Three-ish am and much vino had been consumed by our impromptu gathering when all of a sudden two young-ish girls appeared out of nowhere, clearly not used to normally being backstage and in some state of distress. Turned out they were sisters and one of them had had the misfortune to be 'tipped' - deliberately by a bunch of louts who thought it would be fun - whilst in a Turdis. This was the last hours of the last day of a major festival, I can only imagine (from experience!) what that must have been like..... She'd been literally hosed down by the welfare/medic team and put into some spare clothes but the poor girl was literally still stained blue and incredibly upset. So we welcomed them in and cheered them up with some celebrity hob-knobbing. I seem to recall that Ed Sheeran gave her the trainers off his feet as they were the same size and that I, er, 'disappeared for a while' with the other sister (in search of more champagne, naturally.....)

 

[Rockingit]

make a good fire on the log burner though.

Willow takes a long time to season and yes it's OK on a burner as the heat gets trapped but you wouldn't put it on an open fire through choice

And aren't willows very shallow rooted ??

Sadly! Normally grow along ditches and water-courses as they help to strengthen the banks but they grow top heavy so need pollarding every few years back down to a crown and start over. I'd estimate that our one has to be at least 150-200 years old at the base and it's at a pretty precarious angle to start with as there's a ditch the other side of it. The wild rabbits love it though as there's so many burrows in and around it.

 

[telectrix]

Willow takes a long time to season and yes it's OK on a burner as the heat gets trapped but you wouldn't put it on an open fire through choice


Sadly! Normally grow along ditches and water-courses as they help to strengthen the banks but they grow top heavy so need pollarding every few years back down to a crown and start over. I'd estimate that our one has to be at least 150-200 years old at the base and it's at a pretty precarious angle to start with as there's a ditch the other side of it. The wild rabbits love it though as there's so many burrows in and around it.

wild rabbit, slow cooked on a log fire. utter bliss.