06-21-2019, 06:59 AM
Nocturnal power outage again
So, I was sitting at my com-puter last night about 21:30 when there was a pop outside and everything went dark.
I poked my head outside and saw that folks on the other side of the street had lights. Folks on the next couple of blocks down, in an older subdivision, had lights. The south half of our subdivision was dark. Chatted with neighbors, called power company to reprot. They said it would be back on by 23:30. So, I pulled down a lamp and hooked it to a reserve battery and listened to radio for a while. Then I decided as it was past 22:00, I could probably just go to bed and sleep through it. Checked the automated system with power co and they were then expecting restoration at 00:00. I put on my mask, fired up my machine, cranked the humogrifier down to to -0- and drifted off. Humogrification off, my unit should safely yield 8 nights of use on a 35 AH battery. Lamp by bed lit up at 23:15 so I rolled over and killed the light switch then drifted back off to sleep knowing the the CPAP has switched back over to AC mains and battery was recharging from it's minor exercise. Woke up and trundled to the kitchen at about 06:30 and noted that the coffee machine said the time was 03:30. So power dropped again overnight and had come back on sometime around 03:00. checked and my phone showed the doorbell cam had dropped off again at 02:00 so we had another hour long outage I got to sleep throguh.
I poked my head outside and saw that folks on the other side of the street had lights. Folks on the next couple of blocks down, in an older subdivision, had lights. The south half of our subdivision was dark. Chatted with neighbors, called power company to reprot. They said it would be back on by 23:30. So, I pulled down a lamp and hooked it to a reserve battery and listened to radio for a while. Then I decided as it was past 22:00, I could probably just go to bed and sleep through it. Checked the automated system with power co and they were then expecting restoration at 00:00. I put on my mask, fired up my machine, cranked the humogrifier down to to -0- and drifted off. Humogrification off, my unit should safely yield 8 nights of use on a 35 AH battery. Lamp by bed lit up at 23:15 so I rolled over and killed the light switch then drifted back off to sleep knowing the the CPAP has switched back over to AC mains and battery was recharging from it's minor exercise. Woke up and trundled to the kitchen at about 06:30 and noted that the coffee machine said the time was 03:30. So power dropped again overnight and had come back on sometime around 03:00. checked and my phone showed the doorbell cam had dropped off again at 02:00 so we had another hour long outage I got to sleep throguh.
There. I said it.
OMMOHY
Contrarian in Residence
OMMOHY
Contrarian in Residence
