Power Surges.

Started by Silver Tabby, July 25, 2024, 06:45:51 PM

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Silver Tabby

July 25, 2024, 06:45:51 PM
Has anyone else experienced these today? We have had a couple = electricity just shut down. No light, no PC, and - horror of horrors - no kettle! Only for seconds, but still annoying. Luckily I have a good 'surge protection' thingy, and the documents I was working on were on 'autosave', so nothing was lost or damaged. A few burglar alarms went off though!

dextrous63

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July 25, 2024, 06:50:14 PM
Hark.  What is this I hear 😬

Silver Tabby

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July 25, 2024, 06:58:24 PM
Quote from: dextrous63 on July 25, 2024, 06:50:14 PMHark.  What is this I hear 😬


An echo??

dextrous63

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July 25, 2024, 07:09:32 PM
Quote from: Silver Tabby on July 25, 2024, 06:58:24 PMAn echo??
Ditto😬😉

Anyway, the surge is down to a failure of you wimmin to tend to us men sufficiently.  Get back in the kitchen where you belong.

klondike

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July 25, 2024, 08:27:23 PM
What you describe is a power cut not a power surge and surge protectors will do nothing for you on those. You'd need to be running a UPS (uninterruptible power supply).

Surge protectors are supposed to prevent short term spikes in voltage from  damaging equipment but most of those sold are pretty much snake oil as they won't be triggered at all by smaller spikes and a big spike such as a nearby lightning strike would be likely to blow both the equipment and the surge protector.

On occasion I've seen the lights flicker but not recently.
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