Potential power outages this winter

[dowie]

Out of curiosity, if you have a generator how do you actually connect it to your home? Extension leads off the generator itself?

I know how not to do it... but this product still exists in 'merica and is sometimes used for it, plug into the generator, plug into wall socket.. yay magic electricity... totally safe:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1335476894561656832

I think it's also used when people get the outdoor Christmas tree lights socket the wrong way around, which presumably leaves a live male end dangling and exposed ( ).

 

[Diagro]

Perhaps you are learning. Remind me what your job is?

I'm in charge of development and hardware integration at a company that works across the entire high voltage industry. Mostly 11kV machines. It's all about Big Data nowadays. People want it, I make it happen.

Can't really go more into it here.

 

[dlockers]

I know how not to do it... but this product still exists in 'merica and is sometimes used for it, plug into the generator, plug into wall socket.. yay magic electricity... totally safe:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1335476894561656832

I think it's also used when people get the outdoor Christmas tree lights socket the wrong way around, which presumably leaves a live male end dangling and exposed ( ).

 

[Graetzbridge]

I'm in charge of development and hardware integration at a company that works across the entire high voltage industry. Mostly 11kV machines. It's all about Big Data nowadays. People want it, I make it happen.

Can't really go more into it here.

My field was/is industrial power electronics. Paper mills, oil refineries, petrochem plants etc. And it got me all over the world like BP in Scotland, South Africa, Taiwan, Libya to name but a few.

 

[m4rmite]

In reality clean tap water is a pretty **** poor conductor, so things like dropping a hair dryer in the bath is usually ineffective as a murder weapon

Aren't you getting that mixed up with deionised water?

And if you'r trying to bump someone off in a bath with a hairdryer, add some salt for good effect

 

[visibleman]

And if you'r trying to bump someone off in a bath with a hairdryer, add some salt for good effect

...this thread took a turn

 

[GIBURROWS]

Aren't you getting that mixed up with deionised water?

And if you'r trying to bump someone off in a bath with a hairdryer, add some salt for good effect

For seasoning?

 

[V F]

Good man, I like someone that's not afraid to experiment with dangerous things, get the wife's boyfriend to test it afterwards In reality clean tap water is a pretty **** poor conductor, so things like dropping a hair dryer in the bath is usually ineffective as a murder weapon

Define clean tap water? Ours used to be before Covid.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

There was an outage today for what’s app. How will people cope if they have a little outage for a while.

 

[Cosimo]

There was an outage today for what’s app. How will people cope if they have a little outage for a while.

The poor things will have to talk and read books by candlelight.

 

[dlockers]

For seasoning?

10/10 will lol again

 

[Deleted member 77746]

The poor things will have to talk and read books by candlelight.

We should take ocuk forums offline for 3 days a month so people can take a break.

Far too many people on here with high post count.

 

[LabR@t]

We should take ocuk forums offline for 3 days a month so people can take a break.

Far too many people on here with high post count.

 

[Count Arthur Strong]

My kids laughed when I told them about growing up in the late 60's, pre central heating, an outdoor lavvy with a small paraffin heater in it to stop the cistern freezing, one small coal fire to heat the whole house, cold lino on the bedroom floors and my job as the youngest was to go round the bedroom windows in the morning and scrape the ice off with a wall paper scraper before it melted and ran down the walls.
Well who's laughing now.

 

[dlockers]

My kids laughed when I told them about growing up in the late 60's, pre central heating, an outdoor lavvy with a small paraffin heater in it to stop the cistern freezing, one small coal fire to heat the whole house, cold lino on the bedroom floors and my job as the youngest was to go round the bedroom windows in the morning and scrape the ice off with a wall paper scraper before it melted and ran down the walls.
Well who's laughing now.

?? who?

Edit: sorry your childhood was so miserable you want others to suffer.

 

[Count Arthur Strong]

I just about remember the cuts in the 70s. I remember them not being particularly pleasant. Even as a preschool infant.

I think nowadays, any blackouts would have a much more dramatic effect on the people's lives, so it wouldn't be a case of put a candle and a jumper on. Plus I think there would be a fair bit of civil unrest. Especially given they're talking about blackouts in "selected areas".

This is true. I Rember being fed up as soon as the novelty wore off, but we only had one 21-inch telly in the front room with 3 channels and a bookshelf to entertain us so weren't particularly used to being entertained. Can you imagine a generation used to a TV in every room, 200 channels on tap, Netflix, Amazon Video Disney Plus You Tube etc being plunged into silent darkness?

 

[bigmike20vt]

?? who?

Edit: sorry your childhood was so miserable you want others to suffer.

I had similar childhood as well (late 70s early 80s) but OTOH it was anything but miserable. in many ways it was better than what kids have now

 

[jpaul]

bath water - isn't the point that the body in the bath (silicon excepted?) is the path of least resistance to complete the circuit with the earthed plug-hole -
you are toast if you are bathing in dlockers new house with no CU rcd's.

 

[dlockers]

I had similar childhood as well (late 70s early 80s) but OTOH it was anything but miserable. in many ways it was better than what kids have now

Do you feel the need to whinge about it on the internet? Wear a chip on your shoulder? Feel bad that your kids have it better?

Edit: I guarantee my kid has it much better lol. I'm not lazy enough to get my daughter to scrape my window from ice because I'm three sheets to the wind and need to order my wife around, lol.

 

[Graetzbridge]

This is true. I Rember being fed up as soon as the novelty wore off, but we only had one 21-inch telly in the front room with 3 channels and a bookshelf to entertain us so weren't particularly used to being entertained. Can you imagine a generation used to a TV in every room, 200 channels on tap, Netflix, Amazon Video Disney Plus You Tube etc being plunged into silent darkness?

I didn't hace a television