Power cut in Manchester

Vegetarian · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:12

Anyone just had this - suddenly all my lights go off - net cuts out - and whole area goes dark for 5 seconds - only laptop stays on!

Lights come back on - but house alarms go off near me - then same thing happens again - all alames go sillent!

triggerthat · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:17

Someone is out to get to you.

Boo. Hide under the bed, quick.

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:20

Nothing here at work near the airport. Then again we do have generators so we wouldn't notice.

Cybermyk · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:21

War of the Worlds tbh.

Vegetarian · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:22

triggerthat said:
Someone is out to get to you.

Boo. Hide under the bed, quick.

I cant hide under bed - its solid

help!

Pehaps its Sarah -read hell hath no fury thread

Awww its my 2000th post!

Adam_151 · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:23

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorecloser

triggerthat · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:24

Adam_151 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorecloser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death

Vegetarian · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:26

triggerthat said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death

Thats the most depressing wiki Ive ever seen!

triggerthat · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:28

So rather than hiding under your bed incase the lights go out again, you thought it would be best to go on the Internet? Shocking to be perfectly honest.

Clarkey · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:26

so the power goes off for 5 seconds and thats worthy of posting on here. wow.

SiriusB · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:33

To be fair people have posted far more inane subject matter.

The last time we had a power cut I nearly went deaf from the whole avenue's house alarms going off.

SiriusB

Clarkey · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:34

avenue eh, is that posher than a road or street then

SiriusB · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:40

Well, there is only one way in

SiriusB

Minto · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:42

my lights dimmed twice now you mention it, i was impressed my 360 didn't die, doesn't normally take much to confuse the power supply.

tim_enchanter · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:46

Minto said:
doesn't normally take much to confuse the power supply.

Does it forget which way it has to travel along the wires ?

triggerthat · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:57

My light flickered. Should I post a thread about it?

Craig321 · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:59

Vegetarian said:
Anyone just had this - suddenly all my lights go off - net cuts out - and whole area goes dark for 5 seconds - only laptop stays on!

Lights come back on - but house alarms go off near me - then same thing happens again - all alames go sillent!

5 seconds? Nothing. Bad for PC though. Are are for over an hour at a time. Luckily they haven't been happening recently though.

Atleast you don't get trickle electricity when everything gets a slight bit of power, nothing electrical likes that

big_white_dog84 · 28 Dec 2006 at 10:26

I'm guessing you don't live in a heavily urbanised area? Reclosers are only used on overhead lines because the chances of a transient fault occurring on underground cables is ~0, therefore a recloser would do nowt.
Interesting fact: the DNOs (United Utilities in Manchester) are measured heavily on CI (customer interruptions) and CML (customer minutes lost). If they can get your power back on within 3 minutes of an interruption they don't start counting up the CML. Companies like UU have invested MILLIONS in automation of switchgear etc to meet this 3 minute requirement. However there is still a need for engineers like me to get woken a 2am to go and throw a switch somewhere cause some eejit has dug through a cable on a building site etc etc.

wolvotim · 28 Dec 2006 at 13:07

I love power cuts

the longer the better!!

Vegetarian · 28 Dec 2006 at 13:24

big_white_dog84 said:
I'm guessing you don't live in a heavily urbanised area?

I live bang smack in the centre of Manchester!