Today we (most of the east side of York apparently) had a power cut for about 2 seconds.
What mayhem this caused!
At work, most office computers and a server rebooted, some work was lost, a quite important file was corrupted. And we all had to stop for 10 minutes to discuss technical reasons why the building's forced ventilation fans didn't restart immediately after the power cut.
At home, I've only got to reset the time on nearly all the clocks in our house (binary clock, cooker etc.) and turn on a few things that have soft power switches.
We are far too reliant on a stable 240V AC supply. Can you imagine what would happen if we had to go without electricity for any serious amount of time? We probably wouldn't be rubbing sticks together for energy, we'd be working out the details of installing a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to keep the PCs running.
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There's a skip on Monkgate with an old but quite large APC UPS in it. Good be useful. Mind you, it rained today.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds just perfect to power the clock on our microwave oven. I'll slip it in my pocket it next time I'm passing.
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