Power out in Cork

Bacchus

Hey,
where'd all the electricity go? We've a back up generator here which kicked in straight away but I'v heard the whole city is without electricity. Can anyone shed some light (bad pun I know ) on this?

PowerHouseDan

Yeah my brother rang me askin was it down... Mine is fine though... I am livin on the Boreenamana R.d

deRanged

There was a quick interruption in service here in UCC - like a surge or brownout.

It's killed the ac in my server room - 'luckily' it killed the servers too so no heat issues.

Bacchus

Where in UCC are you? I'm Elec. Eng.

dahamsta

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Yeah my brother rang me askin was it down... Mine is fine though... I am livin on the Boreenamana R.d

Same here, all fine. Out in other parts of Ballinlough though.

Tree

yeah, had a quick blink and dropped a couple of calls, stupid floursecnet lights flashing when they relight

deRanged

Bacchus wrote:

Where in UCC are you? I'm Elec. Eng.

Computer Science. I just heard from B&E that it was a power surge, all back to normal now.

exactiv

I'm working over near the Kinsale Roundabout. We had no power from 1115 to 1245. Twas great, sat out the back in the sunshine with nothing to do...bliss

Tree

damn back up generators

deRanged

now I've to spend the rest of the day fixing servers. without any air con.
I hate power cuts.

exactiv

deRanged wrote:

now I've to spend the rest of the day fixing servers. without any air con.
I hate power cuts.

I love power cuts.... I can't wait til 2050 or whenever the oil runs out.... no power for days... weeks even... bliss.... I'll have to hook up my bike to the computer and pedal power!

Tree

Nah, iniscarra will still be running and we'll ahve more renewable energy sources by then, just you'll have plenty more power and wont be able to sit in the sun, damn you escaping into the sunshine

exactiv

I'd say we'll all be micro generating at that stage.... mini turbines on the chimney & solar panels on the roof....

Tree

so you can organise your own terribly local blackout when teh sunshines?

daveirl

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Dermington

Yeah Bord Gais got hit too.

Wouldn't it be funny if the Grid Control went down and you all burned

damien

Went out in Little Island too but our backup generators kicked in.

odhran

I was too asleep to notice any problems!

gimmick

Im in the Northpoint Business park in Blackpool. The power went for a second, then the back up jenny clicked it. Pity. We could have went out an sunned ourselves had it not hit.

deRanged

just got some sun after all - the fire alarm went off so we all had to go sunbathe for a while.

power spike - ac failure and a fire alarm. you'd swear it was a monday.

Tree

Been taking calls for various alarm and lift companies since it happened, woo for electrical stuff

JohnK

It went in Douglas too

Bacchus

deRanged wrote:

just got some sun after all - the fire alarm went off so we all had to go sunbathe for a while.

power spike - ac failure and a fire alarm. you'd swear it was a monday.

I saw that ealier, everyone was flooding out of the Kane building. What happened? Was it just because of the power failure? Jeez, that building has nuclear/radioactive materials in there, hope noone was running any sensitive experiments when the power cut

deRanged

Bacchus wrote:

I saw that ealier, everyone was flooding out of the Kane building. What happened? Was it just because of the power failure?

the fire alarm in G1/G2 went off - presumably related to the building work going on.
that's at least the 2nd time they've done that.

hope noone was running any sensitive experiments when the power cut

well I was - but they were running in Dublin.

Faith

It just surged or something in my office on North Main Street. Phone calls were cut off mid call and the lights went off for a second.

parsi

Same in Mahon - quick flicker of the lights, nothing went down. But at home the microwave reset and the router went down. Tescos in Douglas sparked off their fire alarm and shut down.

D-Generate

Spare a thought for poor old me! Had my driving test today at 11 and I was just going down Sarsfield hill and way up ahead was a red light. It was ages away still so i was looking in the mirrors and stuff and i glanced again and as they say, there it was gone. I had a whole driving test in Cork City without encountering one set of traffic lights. Crossroads were hell, that whole giving way to traffic on your right rule does not work because then no one will be able to move. It was a free for all. Ah well!

JohnK

Has anyone found out what caused it yet?

D-Generate wrote:

Spare a thought for poor old me! Had my driving test today at 11 and I was just going down Sarsfield hill and way up ahead was a red light. It was ages away still so i was looking in the mirrors and stuff and i glanced again and as they say, there it was gone. I had a whole driving test in Cork City without encountering one set of traffic lights. Crossroads were hell, that whole giving way to traffic on your right rule does not work because then no one will be able to move. It was a free for all. Ah well!

Did you pass?

D-Generate

God no!

dahamsta

Errah only nerds pass the first time. Apply again straight away and let us know when the next date is, so we can all cross out fingers and think happy thoughts that day.

adam

Jack B. Badd

Ken Shabby wrote:

Errah only nerds pass the first time.

Mmmmm...nerds

dahamsta

I, of course, am the exception that proves the rule.

RoundyMooney

JohnK wrote:

Has anyone found out what caused it yet?

It originated in Cork, but the repercussions were felt throughout the South. The reason that generators kicked in in otherwise unaffected areas was the common use of frequency sensing equipment for fault sensing etc. A slight drop in incoming frequency, and in they come.

The downtime, where backup feeds were available was ITRO 14 seconds or so, due to automatic changeover at HT level, or at the customers own incomer (i.e. lots of workstations and kettles). Some variance may have been experienced at different points on the system.

I know exactly what caused this but I can't say anymore, suffice to say it was a one off occurence.

Dizzyblabla

RoundyMooney wrote:

I know exactly what caused this but I can't say anymore, suffice to say it was a one off occurence.

heh heh, who pressed the wrong button?

I remember when I was in CIT, and they had started the apartments out the back, a digger pulled up a load of cables, we all had to evacuate the library and the labs... no fun!

RoundyMooney

Dizzyblabla wrote:

heh heh, who pressed the wrong button?

Something like that... poor git

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I remember when I was in CIT, and they had started the apartments out the back, a digger pulled up a load of cables, we all had to evacuate the library and the labs... no fun!

You'd be surprised how often that happens. More often than not, when I see hamfisted builders and reams of yellow machinery, I know there's trouble a' brewin'...

I wouldn't like to be the one on the ground with the shovel: "Dig away there Pawel, sure 'tis dead"

rymus

exactiv wrote:

I'm working over near the Kinsale Roundabout. We had no power from 1115 to 1245. Twas great, sat out the back in the sunshine with nothing to do...bliss

Same here... I knew there was a reason I brought a camping chair into the office Was supremely pissed off that it chose to come back 15 mins before lunch though

Femelade

our generator just took over straight away....feck sake.

D-Generate, that wasn't really fair was it...I have my test thursday week....eek!