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Fortunately most of us who live in the country get the chance to test how prepared for power cuts we are on a fairly regular basis! In our house we have plenty of torches which are kept charged all the time and I have leisure batteries and a mains invertor for longer outages.
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13th December 2021, 08:56 | #32 |
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13th December 2021, 09:28 | #33 | |
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This assumes you have a car full of fuel to charge the battery. I would not recommend doing this given how long it will take. A small generator is the essential piece of kit as it can power a kettle (ordinary power 1.7ish kW kettle as opposed to the modern 3kW type), microwave, hotplate etc. These are the essentials in a power cut situation. Also keep a few microwavable meals in the freezer. I always have at least one spare, fully charged battery at home for charging the phone, running a single LED light etc. but would use it sparingly in a power cut. A 3kVA (2.8kVA in reality) generator is used for the microwave, topping-up the freezer etc. An electric toothbrush can be used as a manual toothbrush! A torch is a handy piece of kit! |
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13th December 2021, 10:16 | #34 |
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I have one of those bottled gas fires on wheels, complete with a near full gas bottle. That bought decades ago and not really used, just for emergencies.
I have a small single ring gas burner with disposable gas cans. My caravan, in my drive, with 15kg of gas, gas oven hob, gas or electric heated, LED lit from it's 12v battery, so can cook, eat and it's fridge can run on gas, or mains. Half a dozen 12v batteries all fully charged. Gas oven, gas hob. If power fails, no CH, but we have gas fire, which doesn't need power to work. If phones go out, I have VHF and HF radios all able to work on 12v. I normally use a set of wireless phones, which will not work in a power cut - however, I keep a cheap line powered phone in a drawer, in the kitchen, always plugged in to a socket at the back of the unit. I would have liked a log burner, but I just cannot really justify one. In 50 years, we have never been without gas - we have lost electric for the odd few hours though.
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MSS: How often do you need to refuel the generator ?
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14th December 2021, 01:10 | #36 | |
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The generator duty cycle probably ends up being 1 - 1.5 hours on, 2 hours off. I never refuel the generator with the engine running. Ditto my lawnmowers etc. It's just not worth the risk. |
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25th December 2021, 23:39 | #39 |
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Had a trip up to Northumberland about 2 months back house hunting. Nice part of the country. Noticed that a lot of the o/h network hadn't been upgraded. From some of the photos on the news it also seemed they hadn't carried out any tree trimming adjacent to the damaged network. A reliable source said they had very few o/h line staff to deal with the damage from the storm, my former company sent some 200 staff up there to help out under and industry wide mutual aid agreement. Even so customers off for almost 2 weeks(?) is, quite frankly, in excusable.
To compound the problem it appeared the DNO's customer liaison and messaging was also an issue. It never ceases to amaze me, when ever there's an incident such as this, the appalling level of communication by who ever owns the organisation. Sadly it's not as simple as telling customers their power is going off beforehand, they should engage with them beforehand to explain how it all works. Or not. No doubt lessons will be learned. I mean it's not as if we've never had extreme weather incidents of this nature in this country before, that affect the distribution infrastructure a mostly o/h network. |
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