7 affordable ways to fight Eskom’s load shedding
Eskom’s load shedding is here to stay, but there are affordable ways to make life easier when the electricity goes off.
I was looking at various UPS units on takealot, and was wondering if anyone has used one of the cheap ones for powering just their routers during load shedding.
Take this for example:
http://www.takealot.com/rct-650va-line-interactive-ups/PLID32714409
What seemed weird however was how...
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Load shedding will return
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Eskom load shedding update: Tuesday 17 March
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Load shedding to cost SA economy: S&P
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