Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just love how they
can keep the grid up during storms...but when it's nice. I need to find this type of racket to screw people over & get away with it.

Anyway...as soon as I get back from work...will reset the systems & get
things restored.

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Quoting Phoobar to All <=-

Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just
love how they can keep the grid up during storms...but when it's nice.
I need to find this type of racket to screw people over & get away with it.

Same here. Yesterday I had 4 brownouts in the span of my offline mail
packet. This computer takes a long time to boot back up too. LOL

Shawn

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Phoobar wrote to All <=-

Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when
the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my
board...just love how they can keep the grid up during
storms...but when it's nice. I need to find this type of racket
to screw people over & get away with it.

Anyway...as soon as I get back from work...will reset the systems
& get things restored.

Perhaps adding a UPS to the system would help?



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Same here. Yesterday I had 4 brownouts in the span of my offline mail
packet. This computer takes a long time to boot back up too. LOL

Man...can't believe that any place was worse than Bullhead City. AZ. The transformer outside of where I used to live would blow if you farted...had a bad thought or just because it wanted some attention. Seems like with all the rain...we'd have nothing but stuff like this...but with sunny skies & in the upper 50's around 5:45 AM or yesterday around 1:30.

The worst system was the Lenovo I'm using to set up the board under OS/2.
Took me around 2 hours to get it to boot...after I unplugged everything I could. Add to that Windumb wanting to reboot because it wants to update
itself. Got a 480 SSD coming my way & was going to reload on Sunday night/Monday.

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Phoobar wrote to All <=-

Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just
love how they can keep the grid up during storms...but when it's nice.
I need to find this type of racket to screw people over & get away with it.

Let me know if you figure out a good one, I will open a regional office on
this site of the country. :) Actually, I have noticed that some here sometimes also. When you say "nice," do you mean weather warm enough for everyone to be running their home A/C? I would actually call that "too
hot" but I know some like it.

Anyway, it seems that on days here when it is really hot and muggy, that is when we are most likely to get power surges and other issues. I suspect
that is a sign of some old bit of infrastructure that is not very well
handling all of those compressors kicking on. Something that will probably
get fixed once it finally gives out so that they then figure out which part
it is and replace it.



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Phoobar wrote to All <=-

Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just
love how they can keep the grid up during storms...but when it's nice.
I need to find this type of racket to screw people over & get away with it.

1. Prioritize shareholder dividends instead of maintaining
infrastructure.
2. Make speculative energy contracts that have no ceiling price.
3. When the market dries up and energy providers start inflating
prices, start browning out customers to keep from paying the exorbitant
tiers you agreed to.
4. Funnel Billions of dollars to your parent company, then file for
bankrupcy.
5. Write off debts, continue operation.
6. Pay shareholder dividends and buy back stocks instead of
maintaining infrastructure.
7. Be found criminally liable for deaths involved in natural gas
accidents and forest fires.
8. Spend millions on PR campaigns while completely cutting power to
large parts of the state for days on end during fire season.
9. Lobby the PUC to raise rates to pay for
fines, lawsuits, and infrastructure improvements. 10. File for
bankrupcy, continue operation.


Welcome to Pacific Gas and Electric.




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Tiny wrote to Phoobar <=-

Same here. Yesterday I had 4 brownouts in the span of my offline
mail packet. This computer takes a long time to boot back up too.

I have a RAID array on my desktop that takes about 6 hours to verify
when the system loses power. I think I fixed a setting that wasn't
verifying writing from the cache back to the disk, we'll see how long
it takes next time...



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Gamgee wrote to Phoobar <=-

Perhaps adding a UPS to the system would help?

I need to buy a new one, or replace the battery in my old one. For
$60, I had a nice little one that gave my system about 5 minutes of
run time, and would automatically shut the system down gracefully
when the power went out.



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Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just

sometimes also. When you say "nice," do you mean weather warm enough for everyone to be running their home A/C? I would actually call that "too hot" but I know some like it.

Calm wind...low to mid 50's...early in the morning...right after dawn or
around lunch time. Now...I can understand this happening in the evening or
late afternoon when the AC is turned on in many places...but not before 6 AM.

Anyway, it seems that on days here when it is really hot and muggy, that is when we are most likely to get power surges and other issues. I

Used to live in the Bible Noose...so this is understandable.

suspect that is a sign of some old bit of infrastructure that is not
very well handling all of those compressors kicking on. Something that will probably get fixed once it finally gives out so that they then
figure out which part it is and replace it.

Because these companies are publicly owned...if they can do the upgrades for free (labor/parts) & still pay their exec's/shareholders the money they
should be spending on upgrades...it might happen.

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

Gamgee wrote to Phoobar <=-

Perhaps adding a UPS to the system would help?

I need to buy a new one, or replace the battery in my old one.
For $60, I had a nice little one that gave my system about 5 minutes
of run time, and would automatically shut the system down
gracefully when the power went out.

Yep, I have a similar arrangement. A few small ones that keep my
BBS machine, router, cable modem, switches, and a monitor powered
for maybe 10 minutes. Pretty cheap insurance against data
corruption, and (probably) power surges. They seem to be good for
five years or so.



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Seems the local electric utility has an issue with brownouts when the weather is nice. If you've been attempting to contact my board...just

Slept in this morning & got woke up because of silence...no fans blowing over me or on the computers. Come to find out...they had an "issue" which took around 30 minutes to fix. Sent me an email when it happened that it was going down (nice that I had the power to read it)...with another one around 3:30
the power was back on.

Just love the pissing into a strong wind approach of American sodomy
disguising itself as business. Was talking the other day with an Australian citizen who's eventually going back when his wives kids can leave. Truth
is...I asked if he had a sister/brother/non-human species I could marry to be able to take me back with him. For that matter...should've breached polygamy
or polyandry. He asked me what I have to look forward to here & said a cardboard refrigerator box for a Tiny House. He started laughing...but I was totally serious.

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