JHB Load Limiting

[mister]

If they comply, there will be no power cuts. If they don’t the power will be cut for 30 seconds. This will be repeated five times. If the consumption is still above the required limit, the power will be cut for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, the whole process will repeat itself.

If they cut the power to all my electronics for 30 seconds and repeated it 5 times I would ****ing kill them

Sauce: http://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/no-more-load-shedding-in-joburg-if-you-behave/

 

[Compton_effect]

This sounds like a good idea, but what about the unwashed masses and their illegal connections?

 

[mister]

This sounds like a good idea, but what about the unwashed masses and their illegal connections?

Good idea?!?!?!? What if somebody forgets an aircon on, and then goes out, only to find out their computers, and other expensive electronics have been turning ON & OFF X 5 times every 30 minutes?!?!?!?!??!?!

 

[heartbroken]

Good idea?!?!?!? What if somebody forgets an aircon on, and then goes out, only to find out their computers, and other expensive electronics have been turning ON & OFF X 5 times every 30 minutes?!?!?!?!??!?!

This is the absolute worst idea EVER! Doing that will completely fcku up every electronic device in the place

 

[LazyLion]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/692732-City-of-Joburg-to-introduce-power-‘load-limiting’

 

[supersunbird]

The implementation is bad (that 30 seconds nonsense), but the idea is good.

 

[Ridolfc]

This sounds like a good idea, but what about the unwashed masses and their illegal connections?

Not a good Idea, What about bigger households and people who need medical equipment switched on? Eskom just needs to get themselves sorted out. Those who pay should have electricity, those who don't should not.

 

[Myrrdin]

So what is the "average household consumption"?

 

[mister]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/692732-City-of-Joburg-to-introduce-power-‘load-limiting’

This thread is about the switching on/off/on/off/on/off/on/off/on/off, which the previous article did not mention

 

[supersunbird]

Not a good Idea, What about bigger households and people who need medical equipment switched on? Eskom just needs to get themselves sorted out. Those who pay should have electricity, those who don't should not.

"OK, so its a bad idea then, we will just loadshed everyone, thnxbye".

Also explain the bigger households thing? People wise or physical size wise?

 

[chromedome]

So what is the "average household consumption"?

That's the million dollar question.

 

[dovij]

I'm happy with this. People are forewarned, and if you don't use a UPS and are going away and leave something on that's your problem.

My question is, what about buildings? I live in a building with about 40 units, but the building manager's get the account. Who will then get the SMS's? The units or the building managers?

 

[RichardG]

Don't Install smart meters or phone them.... Now they will start charging us premium price if you've a smart meter installed

 

[Sinbad]

This is hilarious.

The Edison smart meters use MTN GPRS connectivity to talk to home base. Most of the time they can't even get billing info through correctly. Can you imagine trying fine grained control of hundreds or thousands of devices over that abortion of a network?

 

[Fulcrum29]

I'm happy with this. People are forewarned, and if you don't use a UPS and are going away and leave something on that's your problem.

That repeated 30 sec cuts can easily kill any UPS or any other switchover backup system, and pending on your distribution board it may hurt other connected (and powered) equipment.

 

[Solitude]

How does this work with sectional titles? Will they switch off the whole complex?

 

[Ridolfc]

"OK, so its a bad idea then, we will just loadshed everyone, thnxbye".

Also explain the bigger households thing? People wise or physical size wise?

Bigger housholds = More people living in a single house. There are people with big families, obviously they will use more electricity than a neighbour that has a household of 2 people and a cat.

They should not loadshed paying customers. If they stop illegal connections and not just give power away to some communities, If they pull their fingers out of their buttholes and do their bloody jobs, they would not have to loadshed.

 

[HavocXphere]

Sheesh....that 30 second plan is a terrible idea.

I'm betting the insurance companies will campaign against this because its going to wreck a bunch of electronic devices.

 

[HavocXphere]

Sheesh....that 30 second plan is a terrible idea.

I'm betting the insurance companies will campaign against this because its going to wreck a bunch of electronic devices.

 

[supersunbird]

Apart from the 30 seconds nonsense, I think its a good idea. I just want my lighting and security systems to work and will load shed all my plugs and geyser and such myself easily if it means I will have power for those items mentioned, that would utilise about 150W.