Heads up - Power flickering

[TheReefGeek]

Lets just shut down parliment for half the day every day and see how the country runs....

ummmmm.... Better? lol

[Funky_Fish14]

Haha... possibly... im not sure if your suggesting crappy government party, or just, crappy government in general? Haha. I might agree with the latter option, but im slighty right of center myself, so conservative floats my boat a little more than liberal. Although, I wish there was more of an environmental concern with conservatives.

Chris

Edit... yeah I guess either way, likely better, haha.

[Beverly]

Our power went off around 5 p.m. Gads!!!! I thought it was going to be a replay of what happened a few summers ago, when the power went off for 4 hours one hot summer night. Had a 75g reef, a 180g oscar tank and a 110g indoor goldfish pond. We were up half the night going from tank to tank stirring the water to help oxygenate it. Luckily, this time, power was out less than a half hour.

Read in the paper this morning about the rotating black outs due to a number of factors, including two local power stations being down for maintenance and another station down for unknown reasons. Of course, there are other reasons, like the ones mentioned above, but our own power generators were off line yesterday. Who schedules maintenance during a heat wave???

Also read in the paper that California is also experiencing rotating black outs due to the high power consumption during their extremely hot heat wave. It's been 40+ C in some places down there.

IIRC, Alberta is on the same power grid as California, so there is export of power back and forth along the grid. It's the same in the East, when there was that huge power black out in ON, PQ and down into the US a couple of years back. Hahaha, those dumb Americans blamed Canada for the power disruption when it first happened, but after investigation, the problem was found to be on the American side of the border. I'm thinking Americans watch too much South Park :P

Glad I'm not in NYC where there are thousands of people who have been without for over a week. They still don't know where the problem is and don't know when power will be restored. Hate to be a reefer in that location. Heck, hate to be a anyone, reefer or not, and not have power for that long. Four hours is bad enough in this weather!

[Funky_Fish14]

Too true!

I dont mind the heat myself, but I know it makes everyone else, and all the critters, quite uncomfortable.

[saltynuts]

right now the plant at wabamum is down(no power till aug 17th boiler when down)
the highvale plant i work at has 2 units down so not so much power but still going and some main line to b.c is down too

[muck]

Did you knock it off line with your trawler Ed..??

[mark]

GFI should behave the same in a outage as regular receptacle. Unless there's been a ground fault, why would they trip?

[TheReefGeek]

Originally Posted by mark

GFI should behave the same in a outage as regular receptacle. Unless there's been a ground fault, why would they trip?

Should be, but there have been lots of reports of "picky" GFI outlets that trip in situations like this, especially "flickering" power as the title of this thread indicates.

[Funky_Fish14]

Originally Posted by ed holland

right now the plant at wabamum is down(no power till aug 17th boiler when down)
the highvale plant i work at has 2 units down so not so much power but still going and some main line to b.c is down too

Why would they all go down in such synchrony? I mean, I understand power demand is/was a little higher, but I wouldnt see that affecting the actual generation stations, just the power grid for moving electricity.

Chris

[midgetwaiter]

Hmmm California, Ohio (the source of the east coast blackout) and Alberta all having strange power problems and rolling blackouts. Couldn't be related to deregulation could it.....

Remember folks, it's not only about higher prices, there are other benefits to deregulation!