LOL I thought they where when I took them off, then jsut figured JD did something ass backwards. I should have double checked after I got the deck on lol.
P.S. don’t mow drain pipes…
we had a surge at work about 2… Willyville area … blew one of the AC units on the floor … it was just condensing like crazy and not cycling … pissed water everywhere
Whole house surge protectors are worth the money. They go right on your panel and protect all circuits.
Voltage and number of phases do not matter when it comes to flickering lights from brown outs. It’s a feed from utility problem. Not a particular voltage configuration problem.
Unless a transformer blows up. Then your 480 volt lights might not be seeing 480 volts and won’t turn on. But usually the nat. grid transformers are stepping down from much higher voltages. Not stepping up.
I am sure someone can shed more light on this but I know there is a lot of factors like response time and joules to rate a surge protector and what it can handle from a hit. If you are getting the cheap ones, a lot of times the power surge is already hitting your device before it reacts. if you have rolling brown outs, some devices are just not able to take the hard on/off which you really can’t do anything about. You can just protect the surge from when the power comes back on.
How do whole house SP work/hookup? Easy to install?
Yo dawg, I heard you like surge protectors so I got you a surge protector for the surge protector that connects to your houses surge protector.
Just got this email at work:
We have been advised by our electric supplier that they expect possibly some serious problems on the electric grid due to the extremely warm weather placing heavy demands for electricity.
We have been asked to curtail our usage this afternoon, June 21st, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM. To respond to this we will be intermittingly shutting down and setting back our systems air conditioning this afternoon in particular from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
I heard if there are 3 days in a row it is more likely to happen. Why is this? Is the power source slowly heating up day after day?
Probably more to do with human behavior. You have a lot of people who don’t like air conditioning and say “oh, I’ll just live with it” and if it’s just a day they never resort to AC. Each day as the heat goes on more and more people give in and fire up the AC, adding more load.
Haha hot boxing the employees
Growing demand as days continue, people rush out and grab AC units, run their systems more, and cooling systems for all different industries are more busy.
Not me…Window A/C in our office because the building I’m in doesn’t have central air. It already feels like I just got out of the shower around campus.
Send out an email saying the power consumption they would save turning off all servers and computers.
As it stays hotter for longer more people finally break down and start using AC more. Also, everything has heat soak so it starts to just be hotter in areas that would have been cooler, the nights don’t get as cool, etc.
The majority of issues are from transformers going boom, which can happen from heat and cold, but in this case it is the heat. So, hotter outside, means they don’t cool as well and then the increased in electricity means it works harder and makes more heat. The longer this happens the more likely it is for those items in a grid to fail.
After the flickering yesterday I was fully expecting to have a mini outage over by UB North, but it was stable after that mid morning flickering.
Lol! Considering our “Server Room” A/C breaks weekly it will get so hot in there the servers will eventually shut themselves off.
Had similar issues when I worked at I-Evolve the owner/HVAC company didn’t understand how to calculate BTU heat load for the data center.
AC units were supposed to be N + 1 however it required both running at the same time to keep a constant temp when you combine that with those cotton wood floaty things that clog AC units we had all kinds of fail.
At least part Lancaster is out. Chatting with a friend right now who lives behind Como Park and said they aren’t supposed to get it back until 2pm.
Semi close w00t come on day off
Holy crap. 22.35% in Lancaster is out.
We just got the email saying we need to “curtail” energy between 2 and 6 today also.
Dan
LOL Sorry your suck in medina. where do you work?