Loadshedding damages

[PhireSide]

Inspired by a few posts I've seen here of folks losing equipment to the dreaded Eskom, I thought maybe this would be a good place to gauge the amount of damages incurred by the constant power cuts.

Post up here if you have had anything break/burn out possibly as a result of LS or power outages. Perhaps a template can be used to keep things standard:

Item:
Estimated time and date:
Estimated or calculated damage:

I'll start:

Item: 1x Intel NUC8i3BEH - started making a high pitched coil whine sound after a round of LS and sometimes doesn't turn my screen on. Due to the compact nature of this I would need to replace the entire base unit at a cost of around R6000.
Estimated time and date: Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Estimated or calculated damage: R6000

Item: Garage Door Batteries
Estimated time and date: Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Estimated or calculated damage: R480 for replacement batteries

Item: 1x GU10 LED light
Estimated time and date: Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Estimated or calculated damage: R40

 

[Jola]

One expensive pure sine wave UPS (charger portion defective), this was after a 24 hour blackout in December 2019.
R5000

Many batteries damaged, incl alarm, gate motor, UPS. during rolling blackouts Dec 2019/Jan 2020.
R4000 (so far).

Oh, and during 2018/2019 had compressors fail on fairly new fridge (Samsung) and Freezer (Bosch).

Pretty sure the compressor failures were related to loadshedding. About R4000 each.

Of course, wasted a lot of money on UPS's and batteries as backups.

 

[Cius]

Item: Garage Door motor drive chain
Estimated time and date: Mid Dec
Estimated or calculated damage: Unable to repair so having to replace whole system for R7000, however is a necessary upgrade.

 

[Lupus]

Mine was last year after rolling black outs across March 2019 :-(. Though the fridge is louder than normal :-(.

 

[ArtyLoop]

My "damage" if you can call it that is having spent R4200 on two systems:
1. To provide 600w of 230V mains during Eskom embargo
2. To keep the internet going during Eskom embargo

 

[bwana]

I think I need a new lightbulb in the kitchen.

 

[TheChamp]

A R100 APC 500W UPS I got from Cash Converters, it just could not stay on Mains and kept toggling between battery and AC. I don't know if it's because of loadshedding or it was just time.

 

[Glock26]

DSTV decoder. Hard drive failure due to the load shedding. Could not be formatted and would not record.
Damage: Time and effort. A half day to drive to MC to get it sorted under the care contract. Better things to do with my time in Dec.

 

[Totempole]

Touch wood, no damage so far, but it can't be doing my alarm battery any good.

 

[Compton_effect]

R900 UPS. Looks like the board fried.
(I've had a surge protector in my DB board for years now, so glad for that investment.)

 

[Dan C]

Nothing that cost me money. But I had to format and reinstall Windows.

 

[TheChamp]

DSTV decoder. Hard drive failure due to the load shedding. Could not be formatted and would not record.
Damage: Time and effort. A half day to drive to MC to get it sorted under the care contract. Better things to do with my time in Dec.

Should have done the right thing and driven over it with your car.

 

[minkukel]

Item: Fridge
Estimated time and date: December 2019
Estimated or calculated damage: Fixed at a cost of R1500, cheapest replacement would have been R13K plus

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Quite a few things got hit before I left (didn't replace them obviously) - think it was the 1 fridge, PC, TV, printer and 2 modems

2020 and there's an "after the flood/tornado/lightning strike" type thread because of criminal ineptitude ..... kinda makes you look twice

 

[genetic]

Coffee sometimes.

 

[SykomantiS]

Item: One very large, very old, very awesome Sharp Carousel microwave.
Est time & date: Sometime mid December
Est damage: Not sure, currently using a smaller backup microwave and we might be able to have it repaired.

 

[PhireSide]

Quite a few things got hit before I left (didn't replace them obviously) - think it was the 1 fridge, PC, TV, printer and 2 modems

2020 and there's an "after the flood/tornado/lightning strike" type thread because of criminal ineptitude ..... kinda makes you look twice

Yip, and this forum is amongst the minority of people affected because of the tech-oriented content, and there are already quite a few responses on here which makes one wonder how many others are also affected and have had losses.

I guess the govt is smiling all the way, they get their 15% of the cut either way...

 

[backstreetboy]

Nothing yet guess Eskom must try harder. Will probably get a surge protector for the fridge this weekend at least.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Nothing yet but I do ensure all electronics are off before LS time.

 

[SYNERGY]

Nothing yet guess Eskom must try harder. Will probably get a sure protector for the fridge this weekend at least.

Don't jinx it man, don't jinx it...