Best Posts in Thread: Brownouts seem to be increasing

Blackout/brownout...who really cares terminology, bottom line no one is happy when there is an outage. I've have not been to one of the substations to look at relay settings for their breakers. But guessing I would think that there has been rain lately so vines, trees and critters could be a reason for unscheduled outages...even tracking from dirty insulators that went to ground.

Speculation obviously but it does seem like there are less outages than even a couple years ago so hopefully with the slow infrastructure upgrades to their medium voltage lines will help the unscheduled outages. Scheduled outages will continue for the maintenance and the replacement of poles/lines that I've seen. Still sucks but it is what it is here.

Shawn

 

Actually it's neither a blackout nor a brownout, it's a power cut

"There's no such thing as American English. There is English and there are mistakes."

 

Due to extreme weather here in Oklahoma Monday, we are on hour 36 without electricity....brings back fond memories of the "brownouts" in Dumaguete.....

 

Don't feel bad folks!
I am presently in Goa, India and have been for a couple of months. It is monsson season and the one thing you can count on is that when it starts to rain we will loose power. Several times a day. This is one of the richest states in India and they cannot get the power supply right. All medium and up sized hotels and restaurants have their own generators.

 

I don't know why they are called brown outs. They are black outs and they always happen more often in the rainy season. We used to have brown outs in California which meant we had limited power but the lights would still be on.

 

We had 4 last night too, Bacong.