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Lupus said:
It's been on 32 minutes now :)
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We only had 2 hours of load shedding yesterday. We only had about 12hours of power in total the previous 2 days combined though.
 
B-1 said:
We only had 2 hours of load shedding yesterday. We only had about 12hours of power in total the previous 2 days combined though.
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See in my area if there is a multihour power failure, you'll still get shedded when you're scheduled. Hell they've literally brought power back after 20 hours of no power 10 minutes before load shedding and we got shed.
 
Lupus said:
See in my area if there is a multihour power failure, you'll still get shedded when you're scheduled. Hell they've literally brought power back after 20 hours of no power 10 minutes before load shedding and we got shed.
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There is no consistency by me. We have also had shedding after issues. We don't even know what happened the 2 days we were off for as nothing but the big failures get reported anymore.
I'm guessing we were only left on because they haven't fixed the issues as yet.
 
Lupus said:
See in my area if there is a multihour power failure, you'll still get shedded when you're scheduled. Hell they've literally brought power back after 20 hours of no power 10 minutes before load shedding and we got shed.
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You mean you guys actually have a schedule?

That would rock.
 
B-1 said:
There is no consistency by me. We have also had shedding after issues. We don't even know what happened the 2 days we were off for as nothing but the big failures get reported anymore.
I'm guessing we were only left on because they haven't fixed the issues as yet.
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None at all, parts of my area are still of yet we've been on since 6am
 
Yesterday we had a 4 hour spell of loadshedding. power came back on time but tripped 3 times before it was on for good. In total we were off for 7 hours. The system is taking strain & not designed to be on/off constantly.
We have been on stage 5/6 since last week. Why are they taking so long to bring the tripped stations back to service?
 
Werner1975 said:
Yesterday we had a 4 hour spell of loadshedding. power came back on time but tripped 3 times before it was on for good. In total we were off for 7 hours. The system is taking strain & not designed to be on/off constantly.
We have been on stage 5/6 since last week. Why are they taking so long to bring the tripped stations back to service?
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Waiting for the selfish public to turn off their geysers
 
Werner1975 said:
Yesterday we had a 4 hour spell of loadshedding. power came back on time but tripped 3 times before it was on for good. In total we were off for 7 hours. The system is taking strain & not designed to be on/off constantly.
We have been on stage 5/6 since last week. Why are they taking so long to bring the tripped stations back to service?
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I mean they've only had us on load shedding for 7 months constantly, why aren't they showing any form of urgency.
 
Werner1975 said:
Yesterday we had a 4 hour spell of loadshedding. power came back on time but tripped 3 times before it was on for good. In total we were off for 7 hours. The system is taking strain & not designed to be on/off constantly.
We have been on stage 5/6 since last week. Why are they taking so long to bring the tripped stations back to service?
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Because other stations inevitably trip when others are fixed, resulting in a net gain of precisely zero.
 
This raises another issue - we are constantly told there are stations on planned maintenance. But they soon break down again. Is it that the stations are in such a bad state that repairs no longer work or is it just bad workmanship?
 
Werner1975 said:
This raises another issue - we are constantly told there are stations on planned maintenance. But they soon break down again. Is it that the stations are in such a bad state that repairs no longer work or is it just bad workmanship?
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Werner1975 said:
This raises another issue - we are constantly told there are stations on planned maintenance. But they soon break down again. Is it that the stations are in such a bad state that repairs no longer work or is it just bad workmanship?
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Bit of both, throw in a bit of corruption and sabotage and you have a perpetual ****up.

The fact that they have made 0 progress the last six months or so should be more than enough evidence that this will never get fixed, it will only get worse.
 
VooDooC said:
Bit of both, throw in a bit of corruption and sabotage and you have a perpetual ****up.

The fact that they have made 0 progress the last six months or so should be more than enough evidence that this will never get fixed, it will only get worse.
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That's actually a fair point; there has been literally zero progress in six months.
 
So, someone at Eskom shared with me a picture of the status of all of their power stations last night. It was unfortunately one of those disappearing pics, not that I'd have shared it. What is interesting is that only one power station on there was green for the entire week. The rest mostly red with a few oranges.
 
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