How often does your power cut?

cocoshovel

Is it just where I live (kilkenny), or is the situation similar in other parts of Ireland? My power has been cut every week for over a month and before that it was about every 2-3 weeks.
I'm absolutely sick of it at this stage. It only goes for a second, but completely screws up everything I'm doing on my computer like college work etc. only last week it went and came back 4 times in the space of 30 seconds which my computer didn't take very well.
Its not just my house. Its the entire area for miles.

It gone at least 30 times this year

What are the ESB playing at? :mad:

MrStuffins

Never. i pay my bills!

Latchy

Sounds like a power surge problem .

phasers

The last time was in like 1996

JimmyChew

My power never cuts out (limerick city) you should ring the ESB and tell em. Something like that would drive me mental.

biko

Galway city - never had a power cut.
Speak to ESB and get a surge protector/battery backup for your PC.

johnmcdnl

I'd only have a power cut if the ESB were working on the lines and then we'd get notice about it...

then maybe during a storm but it'd be back up in a few hours..

never get random power cuts ever

PseudoFamous

It'll go once every year or so, as does the water. I'm in South Arklow, if it matters.

Mint Sauce

Own place. Cant remember last time.

Parents. Anytime I've been there, once or twice.

Have you rang the ESB OP?

stovelid

Latchy wrote: »

Sounds like a power surge problem .

Sounds like the flux capacitor is gone.

Live in south-west Dublin. Can't remember the last time the power has gone.

cocoshovel

irish-stew wrote: »

Own place. Cant remember last time.

Parents. Anytime I've been there, once or twice.

Have you rang the ESB OP?

I haven't yet. But I will in an hour or so because this is beyond a joke now. Previously I just assumed it wouldn't happen again or I just forget about it as Im working on something else.

AgileMyth

Last time I remember was in about 2002.

We had a litter of puppies (about three days old) and the heat lamp was keeping them alive as their mother had rejected them. Needless to say they died after we spent all day looking after them. 12 year old me was devastated.

I'm in Sligo town btw.

Dudess

Cork city - not in years, apart from briefly, due to severe weather damaging power lines.

You younglings don't know how good you have it - in th'eighties and early nineties, long power cuts were a relatively frequent feature of life due to ESB strikes.

andy69

our power goes quite regularly. at *least* twice a month: can be just a few mins sometimes, but other times we could be gone a couple of hours and ESB would say there's a fault and they're working on it.

I wondered sometimes if it was part and parcel of living in a rural area...thopught maybe lines got knocked from time to time, perhaps by farm machinery or whatever.
Never really had an issue when we lived in Dublin or Celbridge, but constantly getting cuts since we moved out here

si_guru

We had a similar problem - power out 1 or 2 times a week, the ESB fitted a new "transformer" down the road somewhere. No problem since.

Liam Byrne

JimmyChew wrote: »

My power never cuts out (limerick city) you should ring the ESB and tell em. Something like that would drive me mental.

Large areas of Limerick went out once a week for 3 weeks in succession in July and August, which was pretty disgraceful.

Maybe you're on a line that also feeds a hospital?

Or maybe you just weren't at home when it went ?

Biggins

cocoshovel wrote: »

Is it just where I live (kilkenny), or is the situation similar in other parts of Ireland? My power has been cut every week for over a month and before that it was about every 2-3 weeks.
I'm absolutely sick of it at this stage. It only goes for a second, but completely screws up everything I'm doing on my computer like college work etc. only last week it went and came back 4 times in the space of 30 seconds which my computer didn't take very well.
Its not just my house. Its the entire area for miles.

It gone at least 30 times this year

What are the ESB playing at? :mad:

It can't be doing your PC motherboard any good with all this sudden shutting down.
Do you have a back-up power-down supply (such as this: http://lnw.me/OSYkxE) or even surge protectors?
Sooner or later the first thing to be effected will be your harddrive, your BIOS and your RAM.

cocoshovel

Biggins wrote: »

It can't be doing your PC motherboard any good with all this sudden shutting down.
Do you have a back-up power-down supply (such as this: http://lnw.me/OSYkxE) or even surge protectors?

Its not. and twice already my pc has completely screwed up after it. Unfortunately I don't have one of those. Might be worth investing in.

Standard Toaster

12 June 1987
Blew the cassette desk on my Atari 800XL

All gravy since

Lone Stone

Never in the house im in now, But in my previous home it went off every few hours because our land lord was a scamming C%$$% who was in debt to the esb :mad:

Cú Giobach

Happens here quite regularly, about once every couple of weeks or so.
Cuts out for between 3-4 secs and a few times up to a minute or so. It also used to happen when I lived in a totally different part of rural Co Cork.

Biggins

cocoshovel wrote: »

Its not. and twice already my pc has completely screwed up after it. Unfortunately I don't have one of those. Might be worth investing in.

Well 50/70 quid in the long run might save you quite a considerable bit more.
A surge protector (for when the power suddenly comes back on) will cost you from €10 upwards - I recommend you only use "Belkin" they are the best in the world.

Power shutdowns and sudden restarts absolutely damage harddrives alone over time, without question.

geetar

mine goes about 3 or 4 times a year. its just my street though, nowhere else...:pac:

Turtyturd

Cut what?

Overheal

sounds like suffrage from a hobbled-together socialized power grid.

Bummer1234

Goes a few times in a year where im from(cavan),Used to go alot more two years ago until esb got there finger out and sorted it out and havn't had much problems since.

Think it was just with new houses been built along the road and going of the one supply and adding pressure and shortages.

ScumLord

Everyone should really have a UPS attached to their PC, especially if there's important stuff on the PC. One of the best peripherals you can own for your PC. There is a running cost involved as the battery will need to be replaced every few years but it will inevitably save your PC at some stage after purchase. They also give you time to save your work and shut down the PC after a power cut.

Overheal

ScumLord wrote: »

Everyone should really have a UPS attached to their PC, especially if there's important stuff on the PC. One of the best peripherals you can own for your PC. There is a running cost involved as the battery will need to be replaced every few years but it will inevitably save your PC at some stage after purchase. They also give you time to save your work and shut down the PC after a power cut.

That, and Brownouts actually do a fair amount of damage to your system's internals. In a brownout your mains voltage gets cycled fairly rapidly and its a good way to **** your **** up. Had to reflash my BIOS after a recent thunderstorm - 20 minutes later I had bought a UPS with AVR.

x_Ellie_x

Luckily, only once or twice a year. I live in Dublin.