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power cuts
A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user.
There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission lines, substations or other parts of the distribution system, a short circuit, cascading failure, fuse or circuit breaker operation.
Power failures are particularly critical at sites where the environment and public safety are at risk. Institutions such as hospitals, sewage treatment plants, and mines will usually have backup power sources such as standby generators, which will automatically start up when electrical power is lost. Other critical systems, such as telecommunication, are also required to have emergency power. The battery room of a telephone exchange usually has arrays of lead–acid batteries for backup and also a socket for connecting a generator during extended periods of outage.
I'm going to need 40 candles to light one room for the Ex Mother In Law.
Just prepping for this Winter!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11142035/Restaurants-pubs-cafes-shops-small-businesses-forced-close-energy-bills-bite.html
I would like to know if anyone else out there has encountered the very strange phenomenon i'm currently trying to deal with.
The RCD on my 1990s bungalow recently began to trip-out my wall sockets at all hours of the day and night. my first thought was that I probably had a fault in either the...
with the new 17thregs requiring us to to fit rcd & rcbos etc, in the event of a power cut say while i was on holiday for example.because you have to reset the switch, when the supply is returned,there would be no power to say to my freezer or more importantly the sky+ box with 2 x weeks of home...
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