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B-1

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Peace and love peace and love.

Ours is also apparently made of straw and catches fire often.
 
Mzezman

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Eish, these Tshwane subs are fraught with capacity to self immolate... hopefully they can get the residents back up asap
 
ScottulusMaximus

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Anyone around pta east I can borrow a generator from for a bit? Dead serious here...

We're in day 3 of 10 day covid isolation so I can't do shyte and the inverter battery isn't going to last.
 
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We have so many power outages here in Zululand, anything from 4 hours to 24 hours. Forever a sub station "blowing up", besides maintenance concerns, I have no doubt there are people behind this wanting to see this country burn. Since the Zuma riots this has become the norm. How sick.
 
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RedViking said:
We have so many power outages here in Zululand, anything from 4 hours to 24 hours. Forever a sub station "blowing up", besides maintenance concerns, I have no doubt there are people behind this wanting to see this country burn. Since the Zuma riots this has become the norm. How sick.
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I'm sure there are some malicious events but we also have constant loadshedding hammering these substations and a really poor maintenance culture, high rates of theft and coruprion with poor training/skills and no equipment. With all of those aspects things are going to go wrong frequently.
 
RedViking

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B-1 said:
I'm sure there are some malicious events but we also have constant loadshedding hammering these substations and a really poor maintenance culture, high rates of theft and coruprion with poor training/skills and no equipment. With all of those aspects things are going to go wrong frequently.
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Yeah no doubt about that.
 
D3nz

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RedViking said:
We have so many power outages here in Zululand, anything from 4 hours to 24 hours. Forever a sub station "blowing up", besides maintenance concerns, I have no doubt there are people behind this wanting to see this country burn. Since the Zuma riots this has become the norm. How sick.
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It's absolutely ridiculous. And what about every time it rains? It's kind of become the norm here now to just wait for the power to go off on a rainy day. Loadshedding is understandable, but these constant power outages are ridiculous.
 
TheChamp

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ScottulusMaximus said:
Anyone around pta east I can borrow a generator from for a bit? Dead serious here...

We're in day 3 of 10 day covid isolation so I can't do shyte and the inverter battery isn't going to last.
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Why don't you buy a pair of panels, with this nice weather they can keep your battery full and you can enjoy your isolation without the drone of a generator.
 
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ScottulusMaximus

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TheChamp said:
Why don't you buy a pair of panels, with this nice weather they can keep your battery full and you can enjoy your isolation with the drone of a generator.
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Lots of issues with that sadly but I'm looking into it vs the cost of hiring a generator for the next couple of weeks.

Sectional title so can't mount the panels, rules are being changed but will take months, inverter is also just a mecer plug in so no charge controller.

I also have to find a way to get this all done at distance, ideally tomorrow, as we can't leave the house.
 
RedViking

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D3nz said:
It's absolutely ridiculous. And what about every time it rains? It's kind of become the norm here now to just wait for the power to go off on a rainy day. Loadshedding is understandable, but these constant power outages are ridiculous.
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Yes you right, when it rains the power goes out as well.
 
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