Utilities & Mobile Valencia Brownout - A Strange One

Brownout here in Valencia around 4am. d*mn good thing i was awake for this one so i could jump up and flip the switch off quickly or it could have fried every electronic and fuse in the house. First time I've experienced one where everything just started flickering on and off as if someone were just lightly tapping two wires together.

I'm not sure of the damage yet but I suspect I have at least one electronic component fried judging from the sound I heard (and now smell) before i was able to get to the main breaker. I'm really hoping it is the WiFi router or converter fuse and not the Xbox.

Curious if anyone else happened to be awake and experience this crap (or if anyone woke up with a bunch of fried electronics this morning). That kind of sh*t is just nonsense and there is absolutely no excuse for that to happen. The kind of p*ss-poor connection that causes flickering like that is the type of crap that causes fires. Scary stuff knowing I'm hooked up to cables that loosely connected.

 

Almost 2 hours.

Zambales and some cesspool in the NCR (for a very short time). I've experienced plenty of the brownouts where the lights go out for a second, back on for a second, back off for a second, etc. This was disco strobe light on-off speeds though. I can only recall that happening once here before during high winds or a storm but it was only for a second or two then the power was out. This time it went on at least 20 seconds (might have went on a bit longer but that's how long it took me get to the breaker to put a stop to it). However, I do miss the start of many brownouts. Could be more common than I am aware of.....which makes it a bit more scary.

Spoiler: Off-topic comments

BTW: aren't plugs all around the world "prong plugs"? Is there a country out there that has a plug that doesn't have prongs? I do agree that the two flat prong plugs suck....but not nearly as much as the rounded two-pronged plugs you find throughout Europe. (IMO the only plug I've found to be better than the North American plugs, which is what the PI uses, would be the British plug.)


But maybe I'm way off base here and you are talking about a different type of plug.