small concern.

[dustiestrat]

hiya ppl just got a small concern was listening to capital and they were talking about this lights out for london thing. for those who havent heard on thursday a 9 there encouraging ppl to turn of none essential lights. now the whole thing seems to be picking up momentum and sounds like a lot of ppl getting invoved my concern is when when this thing starts is there any chance of a power surge damaging my eletricals?

 

[Jono]

my concern is when when this thing starts is there any chance of a power surge damaging my eletricals?

Only if you have your underpants connected to the mains

 

[helmet]

No. Although you do have a few days to launch a counter campaign.

Lets go back to worrying about proper things like cancer causing WiFi networks, cancer causing mobile phone signals and sickness inducing Big Brother please.

 

[dustiestrat]

cheers i just didnt wanna be playing 360 at the time and some power surge kill whats already a fragile console.

 

[iCraig]

I think our grid is a bit more stable than that. I'm sure with a drop in demand, a drop in supply to match would immediately occur.

 

[CF93]

There was an article on the BBC about it recently, where the power peeps said they're used to surges - kettles getting turned on in ad breaks on popular soaps etc.

They did say they weren't sure what would happen if everyone turned stuff on at the same time though.....