Electricty Problem

WingZero30

WingZero30

WingZero30

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Hi guys

I need a bit of help.

Early in the day I was running Intel Burn Test on my Q6600 as I am trying to overclock my cpu further. At that time my mum started vacuum cleaning the home.
After a while the electricity went out. I went to check circuit breaker switches and found that they have remained intact and didn't trip to off position including the main switch.

After few hours electricty came back but went out again and switches still didn't trip. This has happened for about 3 or 4 times now. I would have thought that in case of overload, switches would have tripped but this didn't happen.

So guys what could be the problem?:(
 
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Sounds like an external problem to me (ie, a power cut). The vacuum and PC are both relatively low power and will not have caused an issue.
 
The vacuum isn't really low power, at 1.5-2kW they are power hungry beasts!

Even so, if there was an issue, the main or secondary breakers would have tripped. Ask the neighbours. If they experienced the same issues, then its the leccy company.
 
Many thanks for suggestions. This is what I thought aswell that the problem of electricty going out and coming back in is externally related.

The electricity provider is souther electric. Do you think it could be related to the company?

If there is powercut in my area, who would be responsible for restoring the electricity in my area as understandably different homes will have different electricity providers?
 
Southern electric would probably be able to advice you if there were any known outages. Personally id just ignore it and monitor the situation.
 
Power cuts, or short loses of supply are rarely caused by overload these days.

A lot will depend on whether or not you are in a rural or built-up area, but common causes are birds flying into overhead lines, damage to cables (or overhead lines) by third parties, or even just partial breakdown in a joint or apparatus on the supply system.

None of thse would necessarily caise a circuit breaker to trip, but if you are concerned about the problem, then I would certainly speak to Southern Electric.

Have you asked any of your immediate neighbours if they noticed the same outages?

My guess is that is nothing at all to do with either you burn testing... or your mum doing the housework though!
 
Look in the phone book (not the yellow pages) under 'electricity' for the big ad showing the emergency number to report loss of supply to the relevant company but be warned the first question asked will be' have you spoken to your neighbours to see if they're off too'.
When I ring my supplier about loss of service using a landline there's always a recorded message telling me if there's a known fault in my area or not before you actually get to speak to the guy manning the emergency number.
 
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