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Lost power for about 90 minutes earlier this morning. That was cool.
I have a battery, and it was even charging up during the outage. But apparently for technical reasons I don't really understand, it's not able to power my home during an outage. I got told when I moved in that it should be able to power one or two things to keep the fridge running, but I have no idea how that's supposed to work, seeing as there's no power outlet on the battery.
Ok I wish I could help. Something seems wrong there. Like what's the point of a back up battery system if it doesn't power anything when mains power is lost. That makes no sense whatsoever.
The battery should somehow back-feed/feed your domestic elec circuits.
I have only helped on a few systems and so no expert. I don't know the intricacies of it all. But yeah, something doesn't make sense.
The battery is still useful because it means most nights I don't draw down any mains power, so it saves me usage costs. It takes two very overcast days in a row to drain the battery at my normal usage. And most days it charges to full with enough time to spare to feed-in to the grid a bit.
I think in an outage there are issues with feeding into the grid because of safety. But I'm not sure on the details.
But yeah I do wish it would at least be able to keep the fridge running. Even if it required me to manually switch it over.
It really should be able to run your fridge. And yes it may need doing manually. I suggest looking into it. Hope you get it working.
I can safely say that standing at the jetty on Russell Island at 4 am is damn cccccccoooolllddddd. I imagine a fair few of you won't even be rising for another couple of hours. I wanna be in your nice snug warm bed right now.
Hmmmm I could re-word that.......Well anyway by the time you get up, it will still be cold by the looks of things due to the wind chill factor. The coldest wind chill factor I have ever worked in was minus 15. And yes that is very very cold. So I suppose I shouldn't complain.
Damn it's cold.
Up at 3am for me, and yes, it has gradually gotten colder over the last couple hours. Not as cold as being on a jetty as I can imagine, but still chilly.
Why are you up so early ?
I've found a spot out of the breeze. I have also found a strip of sun rising between storage tanks. Still bloody cold. Beanie "and" hoodie right now.
Why are you up so early ?
I start work at 5am. Takes me about an hour to wake up and get ready, and then about 30 to 40 minutes to get to work.
And yes, I had the beanie on this morning.
Got up this morning and as soon as that first crisp morning air rolled in the window I was like... damn, this is definitely a day that delosmercedes will be committing to the beanie.
Cant blame you with the way that wind was/is carrying on. Had to pee from about a foot to the right of the dunny to account for wind speed this morning.