Power outage in Mawson/Farrer

We experienced a major system fault in Farrer that has caused significant damage to our business computer infrastructure and home. The issue occurred approximately 10 to 11 am yesterday and was an extremely frightening event. To set things in perspective we reported strange flickering of lights in the house the day before and Evoenergy sent a technician to investigate and fund that the issue was not the network. When this event happened lights were exploding devices and pluged in transformers were smoking, AC units stopped functioning and our main concern was fire. EVO energies response was to pull the fuses on all houses efected and for those residences to engage an electrician, this was Friday at 3pm.
The losses so far are substantial and to this date we are only partially up and running. I am not sure what is next but our business is seriously affected. It is reported that over 100 residences were effected. Powere was partially restored at around 12pm. I wish to thank Edward from Holdfast Electrical who put is a big day for so many.

Well we have a lot of power outages in Hackett, and always have (for the last few years since I’ve been here anyway). It is a pain in the neck – alarms don’t go off, the oven won’t work (until the next power outage magically revives it), the dvd player died altogether. I called ACTEW to try to find out if the problem lies with our house, or the street or what, and they specifically asked me to call in whenever there is an outage – before that I was only calling if the power actually stayed off for awhile.
Not everybody who isn’t exactly like you is a whinger.

Ari, I didn’t say everyone were whingers, Just those complaining of a few outages. Meaning that if I can put up with and understand a series of outages, then a few here and there should be of no consequence.

The ones in my suburb were for about an hour or two every other day for about 6 weeks. It was understandable maintenance. If you saw the condition of the old wooden poles you would know. It was a Major job for them as they replaced nearly every pole in the area, with very little inconvenience (when you consider the scale of the job).

You can’t expect to have an essential service without maintenance. I have lived there for nearly 4 years and other then the pole replacement I only experienced one power failure.

You can’t expect a power company to NOT have outages. My father owns a property in Toowoomaba and he has at least two outages a week, each lasting about 4hrs on average. He’s been there for 18 months and it’s always been like that.

FB, your first paragraph says we’re all whingers for complaining about “a few power outs every year”.

Then the second paragraph says people in Downer “had power outs on an almost daily basis for a few months”.

Which is it?

WOW, a few power outs every year, ACTEW must be bad. Whingers. Try living in Brisbane for blackouts. Or even rural NSW or QLD.

Ssanta, I know they are also replacing the old wooden poles with new shiny metal ones, and that is affecting power in some burbs too. They just replaced most of the ones in Downer and we had power outs on an almost daily basis for a few months while they did it. The end result will be a better grid and less blackouts.

Working for ACTEW on the fault line must be something akin to working IT help desk. You get a 5 min power out and get 100+ calls from people telling you it’s out.

Helpdesk is the same. A server goes down and every fucking user calls you to let you know. They always say “I’m sure you probably already know (yes we do) but just in case you haven’t noticed, I’m having trouble with …..” After the 20th call you feel like saying “We know the fucking thing is down and if you stop calling us we can fix the bloody thing”

electricity man…he is pretty evil you know… sucks energy from houses to use it for his cunning plans of destruction

That’s funny, when I rang ActewAGL about a short power failure they blamed possums for that too. Either we have a lot of electric possums or a strange cover up.

We get constant mini blackouts in Hackett – maybe monthly? As well as a few more serious blackouts and one brownout where the power just went to about 1/4 strength for about 4 hours and which destroyed the cheap dvd player. Last time I rang about it ACTEW blamed possums.

No, I’m not kidding GF.

I’ve worked at Deakin for three years and have lost count of the number of blackouts during the day there (it’s in the order of 10 or so) in that time. Admittedly it was worse last year than this year.

I’ve lived in O’connor for about a year and have already had four or so (that I know about since there seem to be many during the day when I am not around, according to neighbours). The latest one was from 10am to 4pm last Wednesday.

Perhaps it’s a sign that the infrastructure in the older suburbs is getting creaky.

I am not bad, I just cant spel.