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Thread Author: Falkirk Bairn Replies: 11
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New Sat 10 Dec 11 17:53 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Falkirk Bairn
Thursday late on a friend suffered a storm power cut
Friday came and went.

Saturday 08:30 power comes on next door 100%.

Their house the power came back to the immersion heater only - no lights/sockets.
14:30 Sat power restored 100%.

How come? I know about 3 phase but this for factories, office blocks not a home even if it is bigger than average - say 2500 sq ft.

Surely a home will not have a 2 phase supply or am I wrong. The house is 18 mths old.
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New Sat 10 Dec 11 18:21 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Manatee
Their immersion heater is connected to next-doors' meter. Tell them to keep quiet.
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New Sat 10 Dec 11 21:03 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Dave_
All appliances in a house should be connected via 1 supply... I think Manatee might be onto something there!

Not heard from my friends in the Inner Hebrides since a facebook post on Thursday lunchtime about their classic Renault 4 being blown into the wall of the house. I presume their power / mobile signal is still down.

BobbyG, did your neighbours' Pajero stay up on its bricks?
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New Sat 10 Dec 11 22:36 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Dog
>>Not heard from my friends in the Inner Hebrides since a facebook post on Thursday lunchtime<<

Would that be Tiree I wonder, I was eyeing up a building plot in that neck of the woods the other day

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20390037.html
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New Sat 10 Dec 11 23:02 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Dave_
>> Would that be Tiree I wonder,

Not a million miles away - Luing, the other side of the Isle of Mull :)
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New Sun 11 Dec 11 20:30 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - nyx2k
please dont post about beuatiful building plots as when i see these things for sale im so tempted to put a nice log cabin there and retire to just look at the scenery.
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New Sun 11 Dec 11 21:45 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Dog
That's the way I was thinking nyx - a Scandinavian log jobbie, but that site looks a tad exposed to the west/souwest winds so it's a thumbs down para mi amigo.
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New Sun 11 Dec 11 22:56 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - CGNorwich
"and retire to just look at the scenery."

What scenery - it's a windswept wilderness. No trees, No pub, no restaurants, no theatre, no cinema, no cafes, no civilisation. I'd top myself in a week. Probably what the previous owner did.
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New Mon 12 Dec 11 03:37 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - AnotherJohnH
"and retire to just look at the scenery."

I know people up there who chain their shed to the cattle grid to stop it blowing away in the storms.

Summer can be good, apart from the midgies and tourists, but winter - no.
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New Mon 12 Dec 11 09:28 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - nyx2k
looks like i'll stick to uk mainland then. land around here is very expensive so a better bet may be lincolnshire.
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New Mon 12 Dec 11 11:45 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - TeeCee
Here's a possibility.

When I lived in Prague, the house there had an electric heating/water boiler. This was on a two-phase supply, which was on the "other" two phases to the lights, sockets 'n such.

On occasion we did get power but no heat or heat but no power. It was far more common to just get all or nothing though.

A mate owns a house in Bedfordshire which came with the same arrangement, so there's precedent in the UK for a similar situattion.
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New Mon 12 Dec 11 13:50 
 Storm cuts off power - comes back in 2 x stages! - Jetski
Before I installed a three phase 60kva generator at work we had a tree pull the power lines down one weekend, one phase somehow was still connected but at 80v to ground so no fluorescent lamps would work however we had a few incandescant bench lamps glowing and the water heater was on, also the kettle would boil eventually.
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