Currently, this is the only thing in our house with electricity; it’s my Network Attached Storage (NAS), running off my Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that was at 68% of a major upgrade when the power went off for the 2nd time today. I’ve shutdown everything else hanging off the UPS in an, hopefully not a vain, attempt to extend the battery life of it. Power is ‘expected’ back by 1700. We shall see.
The cacophony of house alarms throughout the village is resonating with the ‘beep beep beep’ every 2 minutes of the UPS, just letting me know it's on battery.
@susiemc - power came back just after 6pm. By then the UPS (a battery basically) had run out and the NAS (an external hard drive (but huge)) had failed. It’s restarted and I’ll see in the morning if it’s corrupted.
@seacreature - the provider said the fault was with the overhead lines that, because they’re in the open, they are vulnerable to things hitting them (wildlife, weather, bits of tree) and the safety system kills the power. Yeah I know, crazy in 2023, but it happens often (at least 5 times in last 2 months)
We had a scheduled power cut the other day 9M to 4pm but then they extended it for another hour.. boy all the jobs you can't do.. we certainly rely on it.. the cows were getting g a little impatient when they couldn't get milked..
Nothing worse than power outages. We occasionally have power outages due to sub-tropical cyclones and the power can be off for a few days. We are pretty self-sufficient now though. Gas camping stoves, battery lights, generator to keep the fridge working etc. Hope the power wasn't off for too long.
@susiemc@seacreature@julzmaioro@nigelrogers@kjarn At the moment, the failure of the NAS when the UPS ran out of battery has resulted in, what I hope is temporary, a corruption of around 40,000 files (all photographs). More investigations needed when it’s finished the upgrade (now at 71%)
August 25th, 2023
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@seacreature - the provider said the fault was with the overhead lines that, because they’re in the open, they are vulnerable to things hitting them (wildlife, weather, bits of tree) and the safety system kills the power. Yeah I know, crazy in 2023, but it happens often (at least 5 times in last 2 months)
Hey ho.