unclebuck

Anybody else get this? 2 fookin hours 7 - 9 [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] All my plans for the evening ruined. Bloody third world britain.

It was a relief when it came back.

UB

boxst

Hello

There was a power cut in Crowborough a couple of months ago. Sadly I wasn't prepared and had to wander round the house with the light of my laptop computer illuminating the way.

I wasn't amused at the time...

Steve.

unclebuck

I had half a candle and a maglite with the batteries nearly flat to see me through. No computer I was due to get my bike running this evening - I'd been looking forward to it all day. Grrr [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

John Catlin

Used to live in Finchampstead and bought a generator due to to all the power failures.

At the end of the distribution line and therfore board would not do any thing about it.

Still have the generator and still comes in usefull every so often.


[Edited by John Catlin - 11/17/2003 9:32:02 PM]

Tim-Grove

It crack’s me up at how angry people get when the electricity goes off . They think that you can just flick a switch as make it all better

unclebuck

Ok, I've fought back. Gone out to the garage with the site light and put the finishing touches to the Bike... and..... IT STARTS

Horaah - sound fookin' ace too. Sorry to the neighbours...(not)

UB

Leslie

We keep on getting statements that this country is on a knife edge for power supplies too. Bit of a worry if it gets much worse.

What kind of bike UB?

Les

[Edited by Leslie - 11/19/2003 12:46:34 PM]

Brendan Hughes

ub, three posts complaining about the same topic and not one blaming it on the Labour government. You're slipping!

Dave P

Steve which side of Crowborough Hill are you? A few months ago there was a power cut which took out half of Crowborough, (Queens Road side) and they traced the fault to a bit of cable at the bottom of my drive. I tried to explain to them that as I had power the rest of Crowborough could suffer but they isisted on digging it up! I kept them in cups of tea and biscuits until about 1am.

Dave

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

But WHY???
AFAIK, there is spare capacity in the system. Certainly, they've recently shut a coal fired power station, a big one, one of three on the Trent south of Newark.
Makes my blood boil[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

It'll be a scam to get prices up again![img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Alcazar

unclebuck

Sorry Les, missed that. It's a Honda VTR1000 Firestom, with additional performance mods...



Did I notice somewhere that recently bought yourself a bike?

[Edited by unclebuck - 11/19/2003 1:12:08 PM]

TaviaRS

Must have been the same power cut we had 19:45 'til 21:00. Not good, had to drink my pint by candlelight

unclebuck

Yep, that was the one.

Dazza01

Niceeeee bike UB, oooh that's not an illegal number plate is it per chance

Tim-Grove

Good lad

Don’t know about other regions but in the area that our company covers I’d say 95% of power outages are down to cable faults and not to generation problems.

boxst

DaveP:

I live on Beacon Road.

I was wondering why I moved back to Crowborough as a few weeks prior to the electricity cut there was no water!

Steve.

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

There was one in Worcester park this morning according to the GF

Pitch Black

Alcazar,

The problem isn't with the Power Generation, its the decaying state of the Distribution System, i.e. The National Grid and the REC network. Each transformation down in power, from 400kV to 410V, is in effect a bottleneck in the system and this combined with many of the underground cables being in excess of 30 years old, leads to overstressed cables and subsequently 'Fault Conditions'. Faults on the big cables, i.e. 400kV, 275kV and 132kV can take upto 6 months to repair!

unclebuck

Cheers - Dazza01

Illegal plate I had no idea..

UB

nigelward

It will be soon, as the old coal fired power stations get decommissioned and nothing is built to replace them.

Tim-Grove

A lot of our STA cables are 60 years old plus some even older than that, some of the old concentric cables we work on were put in the 20's. These older cables are not the problem they were generally built to last regardless of cost. A lot of Electricity Company’s in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s used a cable called Consac (horrible cable) a lot more attention was given to cost when this cable was designed (and it shows). It really is terrible cable always faulting, dangerous to work on and very easily damaged, I’d say 70% of our L.V fault work is on this cable. And the same goes for the old switchgear and transformers they’ll last a life time some 60 year old oil filled switchgear will work as well as the day they were put in. But the new SF6 gas filled gear is total crap I know of instances where switchgear has only lasted 5 years before failing. All this is only down to one thing... under investment and trying to save money. I’m sorry this money saving cost cutting mentality just isn’t the way to run a public service, it just end’s up in sh!te service to the consumer.

Sorry to go off on a bit of a tangent there [/rant]

^Qwerty^

Next door neighbour works at Drax. Says there isn't the slack in the system that there used to be (i.e. power stations closing)
If we get a bad winter he said there was likely to be power cuts as the system would fall over.

He also said the South East would suffer most. Don't quite understand that one but probably due to the comments above about the distribution network?

Leslie

Really good looking bike UB, you'll get a lot of fun out of that.

I had bikes up until recently, mainly Kwackers in recent years but sold the 6R a while ago since I could not justify that and a Scoob to Her Indoors! Really missing it now and might be tempted back again.

Enjoy

Les