Load Shedding: power never comes on again

[mmacleod]

The breakers get stressed from all the load-shedding and eventually fail.
They are not designed for frequent power cuts.

Yeah, this is a big problem, no part of the system is designed for this, hence all the substation failures etc. as well. Our substation has tripped about 5 times now, just waiting for the day it blows.

 

[Sonic2k]

Hmm , Last Saturday power came on for about 2 seconds after the scheduled end of load shedding, and remained off for another two hours.

That has happened with us too... except it was on for 4 minutes... and then the whole area plunged into darkness...
this loadshedding is slowly destroying the equipment... but the cANCer is too stupid to realise it

 

[Mike Hoxblack]

And guess who's going to foot the bill when Eskom needs to replace entire substations filled with equipment?