Dublin Power problems, Fire on 3 Rock Mountain

Emerson

The lights were flickering about 40 mins ago..
All servers went down.

Seems to be the whole south city that got a brief outage/surge.
Radio went out for about 30 seconds.

Fire up on 3 Rock mountain. Might be responsible?

Dyr

All our lights flickered in ballsbridge alright but thats all

now why arent yer fecking servers on a UPS? :mad:

mobby

Same here Dublin 8 area, 3-4 power outs in the last hour.

Splinter

server went haywire here in work and lights were flickering like nuts, any other reports? im based in Swords

I blame RTÉ...

They were doing something to the mast on three rock this morning, probably fixed the mast, but broke the power supply...

typical

Emerson

Apparently they are on UPS.. but a surge just tripped them out completely I've been informed.
There's alot of smoke up there..

The Gnome

Our building automatically switched to generators for a while there which is always cool.

John R

Had some flickering here in DunLaoghaire too. One bad drop about 30mns ago. Strange thing was that one PC re-booted while the other one kept on working.

Splinter

John R wrote:

Had some flickering here in DunLaoghaire too. One bad drop about 30mns ago. Strange thing was that one PC re-booted while the other one kept on working.

go on the surge protectors :P

Archeron

Does anyone know if this is effecting or could effect phone lines? I'm having trouble getting through to phone numbers is Meath.

John R

splinter wrote:

go on the surge protectors :P

They are both on the same surge protector.

Surge protectors only protect from power spikes, not drops.

John R

Archeron wrote:

Does anyone know if this is effecting or could effect phone lines? I'm having trouble getting through to phone numbers is Meath.

It's probably just lunch time for the women in the Meath exchange, they are a bit behind the times out there you know.

zuutroy

The entire of Intel's Fab24 went down. 10's of millions worth of damage

Wertz

zuutroy wrote:

The entire of Intel's Fab24 went down. 10's of millions worth of damage

Ouch...someone's getting sued....

LeperKing

zuutroy wrote:

The entire of Intel's Fab24 went down. 10's of millions worth of damage

What happened to IFO?

zuutroy

LeperKing wrote:

What happened to IFO?

nothing AFAIK.

cance

i was working on the ups in work when it happened, scared the shite out of me...

minding my own business then *BOOOOM* the thing kicks into life and me with the external power cable in my hand :rolleyes: unfortunately the servers, they went down

dublinhead

Has is it been confirmed what caused the power outage? Intel was badly affected.

ixoy

Just two instances of flickering lights out here in Blackrock, coinciding with this surge...

Slaanesh

John R wrote:

Had some flickering here in DunLaoghaire too. One bad drop about 30mns ago. Strange thing was that one PC re-booted while the other one kept on working.

We have loads of PC's here in work, the lights flickered twice and my PC rebooted, I went around the whole office and not one other PC had failed, just mine. Humbug ...

irlrobins

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/08/03/story270600.html

JaysusMacfeck

Raging fire up here in the mountains. Some of those power carriers seem to have complely collapsed!

Peace

Flickering in ballymount industrial estate. UPS cut in.

Caco

Im work in Clonskeagh, have a great view of the HUGE fire!
We had some flickering lights too but our network and phones are fine- nuthin serious!

Pics of fire-

BaZmO*

That's weird. I was up there about 2 hours ago and seen a fire so I decided to take a picture. Didn't know it was affecting the electricity though.

mobby

Looking at it through binoculars from work here. I can see a about 5-6 blackened ESB pylons.

aphex™

Cool, lights flickered here in office block on north side of liffey- hope nothing is fried at home.

Tv- you better work when I got home...

Jumpy

Caco wrote:

Im work in Clonskeagh, have a great view of the HUGE fire!
We had some flickering lights too but our network and phones are fine- nuthin serious!

Pics of fire-

Pfff

"Huge Fire"

You should be in sydney once every four years or so

Caco

Well for Ireland it was quite big, but in terms of large fires in general it would rate fairly small, hence the irony of capitalising HUGE!