Rolling Blackouts: Tues 26 May 2015 [Stage 1 from 5-10pm]

[bwana]

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Place your bets...

 

[Bighit]

And the chart looks like it did yesterday, wait for Load shedding stage 1 "all of a sudden" from 17:15. Meh, doesn't bother me though, only affected between 5pm and 10pm on Saturday =D

 

[MickeyD]

We've had intermittent power since 10pm last night. On for 5 minutes, off for 10 minutes - rinse and repeat.

Now we have several street lights imitating disco lights and I'll bet there's going to be quite a few folks waking up to non-working electrical appliances.

I eventually hit the mains switch at around midnight after the 5th on/off repetition. Switched it back on at about 4am... only to have another 3 repetitions. So off it went again.

 

[cr@zydude]

It's a aubstation issue somewhere in Mount Croix. Lots of suburbs in groups 6 and 7 are affected. I turned the power off to prevent the appliances from blowing up.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yeah... def going to have a sudden announcement at around 5pm that stage 1 gets implemented.

 

[MickeyD]

 

[Hamster]

Place your bets...[/I]

Stage 1 by 16:30!

 

[heartbroken]

Place your bets...

Put me down for a hundred for stage 1 at 17:00

 

[HunterGR]

Stage 2 by 18:00

 

[cr@zydude]

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Is load shedding now the term for any electrical fault? Is your power working now?

 

[koeks525]

On the load shedding app, it said there is a low probability of load shedding... I really wish it stays that way.

I would expect stage 1 to start by 1pm... then stage 2 around 5pm.

 

[ellyally]

Love reading things like 'relatively stable'.

 

[MickeyD]

Is load shedding now the term for any electrical fault? Is your power working now?

Power has been stable for about 2 hours. My mate's place, behind Acres Spar, is not... Two adjoining properties - one for business, the other his home. Business no problem. Home - appears the power level is fluctuating so he has hit the mains switch.

 

[cr@zydude]

Power has been stable for about 2 hours. My mate's place, behind Acres Spar, is not... Two adjoining properties - one for business, the other his home. Business no problem. Home - appears the power level is fluctuating so he has hit the mains switch.

I didn't realise that the tweet was a country wide on and not about PE. I tried my lights first, and they are still very dim. I guess it's a low tech day today.

 

[A Non Blonde]

Stage 2 by 18:00

Almost like an edge of your seat, down to the last over cricket match this, stage 1 I'm safe stage 2 its 18.00-20.30 (worst for most) slot.

 

[ellyally]

18.00-22.30 for me tonight regardless of stage. I'm screwed

 

[cr@zydude]

18.00-22.30 for me tonight regardless of stage. I'm screwed

Whereabout are you? A 4 and a half hour block only happens from stage 3.

The powers completely off at my house now. Hopefully that means that Eskom is working on the problem.

 

[ellyally]

Whereabout are you? A 4 and a half hour block only happens from stage 3.

The powers completely off at my house now. Hopefully that means that Eskom is working on the problem.

JHB, 4.5 hours every stage, 9 Hours (2x 4.5) stage 3

 

[cr@zydude]

JHB, 4.5 hours every stage, 9 Hours (2x 4.5) stage 3

Wow, I didn't know that it is that bad. In PE stage 1 is listed as 2.5 but normally lasts 2 hours. Stage 2 is 2.5 and stages 3 and 4 are 4.5 at a time.

 

[ellyally]

Wow, I didn't know that it is that bad. In PE stage 1 is listed as 2.5 but normally lasts 2 hours. Stage 2 is 2.5 and stages 3 and 4 are 4.5 at a time.

Indeed, heres my schedule for today, area 8B, usually stage 3 is a few hours in-between 4.5hours, so, usually miss one of them, but then nights like tonight are like this



Hopefully no stage 3 and if there is, load shedding is cancelled by 10pm