Stage 1 loadshedding from 9am Monday

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The thing is we don't know if it's the truth or just lies again because different day same excuse.... who knows what really is happening.
 
No one, ultimately. V possibly.
That's the most horrifying thought.
 
At this point in time they could just say. Look it's stage 2 until we say it isn't. Leave it at, though they'll see more issues as time goes on was municipalities struggle to repair the old equipment popping left and right so they'll not get their money which means less money for Eskom.
 
Sinbad said:
Not had many frustrations with it...
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I love HA. Started with it last month and I am already 7 sonoffs in and more on the way.
PS - Are you taking any of the smart stuff with you when you leave SA?
 
Tander said:
I love HA. Started with it last month and I am already 7 sonoffs in and more on the way.
PS - Are you taking any of the smart stuff with you when you leave SA?
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Yes all of it
 
Sinbad said:
Homeassistant.
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Thanks. I don't use HA but with so many Sonoff devices in the house I can have IFTTT send me alerts now that I think about it.
 
How we experience Load Shedding in PTA East Zone 13

On the 4th Feb 2020, we had a LS event Stage 2 which was supposed to be for a maximum of 2.5 hours, which turned into a 7-hour stretch. My report logged via the contact SMS for TSH sent to them at 19:41 on the 4th, finally, got acknowledged as received by Tshwane without a reference number being issued at 23:09 on the 6th February, 5 minutes into another LS event.
This morning we had a repeat performance. LS schedule from 07:00 to 09: 30 finally ended after three Surges at 15:00.

Below is the Outage Reports we had to get our Councillor to squeeze out of Tshwane Metro. The reports only came out at the times indicated.:

7 Feb 13:49:
Strulands Sub Outage. Investigations underway. Found panel 6 MS Swaardleleie opened on overload. SO team busy liaising with control to give permission to close the breaker".

14:01:
Switching actions on hold as instructed by Control Centre. Specialised equipment needed and busy at Mamelodi outage. When done at Mamelodi team will proceed with further investigations at Strulands sub and Wapadrand Sub."


So it is official, Mamelodi is more important to Tshwane even though most of Mamelodi refuse to pay its electricity bills than large chunks of Die Wilgers, Lynnwood, Silver lakes and Wapadrand. Thee are many large shopping centres in the area.

Power came back for about 5 minutes at 14:30

14:46:
Please keep your demand low as they cannot switch power on if there is an electricity spike. it will continue to trip. Switch all appliances and lights off, please.
16:38
System Operators on their way back to the sub now.

Large parts of the area tripped again. so a few of us were lucky that pure residential areas stayed up after 15:00.

It is a circus of inefficiency and extremely poor power control. It would have been far better if personnel had been deployed to each large shopping centre to control how these centres came back online one by one, instead of trying to restore only at the substation.
What did they think would happen? All those shops with fridges, freezers and A/C units all trying to start at once.
Show just how poor the expertise is and how lazy the Tshwane personnel are.
We are in for a miserable time if this keeps on.
 
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How we experience Load Shedding in PTA East Zone 13

On the 4th Feb 2020, we had a LS event Stage 2 which was supposed to be for a maximum of 2.5 hours, which turned into a 7-hour stretch. My report logged via the contact SMS for TSH sent to them at 19:41 on the 4th, finally, got acknowledged as received by Tshwane without a reference number being issued at 23:09 on the 6th February, 5 minutes into another LS event.
This morning we had a repeat performance. LS schedule from 07:00 to 09: 30 finally ended after three Surges at 15:00.

Below is the Outage Reports we had to get our Councillor to squeeze out of Tshwane Metro. The reports only came out at the times indicated.:

7 Feb 13:49:
Strulands Sub Outage. Investigations underway. Found panel 6 MS Swaardleleie opened on overload. SO team busy liaising with control to give permission to close the breaker".

14:01:
Switching actions on hold as instructed by Control Centre. Specialised equipment needed and busy at Mamelodi outage. When done at Mamelodi team will proceed with further investigations at Strulands sub and Wapadrand Sub."


So it is official, Mamelodi is more important to Tshwane even though most of Mamelodi refuse to pay its electricity bills than large chunks of Die Wilgers, Lynnwood, Silver lakes and Wapadrand. Thee are many large shopping centres in the area.

Power came back for about 5 minutes at 14:30

14:46:
Please keep your demand low as they cannot switch power on if there is an electricity spike. it will continue to trip. Switch all appliances and lights off, please.
16:38
System Operators on their way back to the sub now.

Large parts of the area tripped again. so a few of us were lucky that pure residential areas stayed up after 15:00.

It is a circus of inefficiency and extremely poor power control. It would have been far better if personnel had been deployed to each large shopping centre to control how these centres came back online one by one, instead of trying to restore only at the substation.
What did they think would happen? All those shops with fridges, freezers and A/C units all trying to start at once.
Show just how poor the expertise is and how lazy the Tshwane personnel are.
We are in for a miserable time if this keeps on.
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Geezes that sucks man, try and mitigate as much as possible with inverter and solar. We don't seen to have much choice now
 
Lupus said:
At this point in time they could just say. Look it's stage 2 until we say it isn't. Leave it at, though they'll see more issues as time goes on was municipalities struggle to repair the old equipment popping left and right so they'll not get their money which means less money for Eskom.
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I won't mind them to announce a whole month or more of timetabled loadshedding, then everyone can plan ahead for the future. The switch it off and turn it back on again announcements just doesn't work, it doesn't work in IT and neither does it work in memes.
 
Geoff.D said:
How we experience Load Shedding in PTA East Zone 13

On the 4th Feb 2020, we had a LS event Stage 2 which was supposed to be for a maximum of 2.5 hours, which turned into a 7-hour stretch. My report logged via the contact SMS for TSH sent to them at 19:41 on the 4th, finally, got acknowledged as received by Tshwane without a reference number being issued at 23:09 on the 6th February, 5 minutes into another LS event.
This morning we had a repeat performance. LS schedule from 07:00 to 09: 30 finally ended after three Surges at 15:00.

Below is the Outage Reports we had to get our Councillor to squeeze out of Tshwane Metro. The reports only came out at the times indicated.:

7 Feb 13:49:
Strulands Sub Outage. Investigations underway. Found panel 6 MS Swaardleleie opened on overload. SO team busy liaising with control to give permission to close the breaker".

14:01:
Switching actions on hold as instructed by Control Centre. Specialised equipment needed and busy at Mamelodi outage. When done at Mamelodi team will proceed with further investigations at Strulands sub and Wapadrand Sub."


So it is official, Mamelodi is more important to Tshwane even though most of Mamelodi refuse to pay its electricity bills than large chunks of Die Wilgers, Lynnwood, Silver lakes and Wapadrand. Thee are many large shopping centres in the area.

Power came back for about 5 minutes at 14:30

14:46:
Please keep your demand low as they cannot switch power on if there is an electricity spike. it will continue to trip. Switch all appliances and lights off, please.
16:38
System Operators on their way back to the sub now.

Large parts of the area tripped again. so a few of us were lucky that pure residential areas stayed up after 15:00.

It is a circus of inefficiency and extremely poor power control. It would have been far better if personnel had been deployed to each large shopping centre to control how these centres came back online one by one, instead of trying to restore only at the substation.
What did they think would happen? All those shops with fridges, freezers and A/C units all trying to start at once.
Show just how poor the expertise is and how lazy the Tshwane personnel are.
We are in for a miserable time if this keeps on.
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We have it just as bad in Centurion. Heuweloord and Brakfontein substations is a disaster. Trips and then the Councillor and then municipality tells us to switch off non essential appliances to restore the load. on for 2min off again. After 20min on for 2min then off for the whole night. 4am power back on. All good. 1 hour before our loadshedding slot starts "Trip at Brakfontein substation 132kv line trip" Technicians are busy at Soshanguve outage will attend soon. Very annoying. I'm waiting for the next explosion at Brakfontein sub because those transformers are overloaded if they keep tripping due to heavy load.
 
Two nights in a row that they've skipped our 20:00 to 22:30 slot.
 
And unplanned outages have yet again increased.
Sigh, could eskom not save us all the trouble, and implement until further notice. IMG_20200207_203848.jpeg
 
All a load of bullshit.

But no one can bullshit a bullshitter.

Stop hoping for better days and accept doggone reality for at least the medium term future! People sound like gamblers expecting the next round to be a winner.

Try it. You might even find some inner peace.
Over and out.
 
Good Watt! In forty eight hours I should be crossing the border home into Namibia, these past two weeks in the Good ol' Cape of Storm was an eye opener, I will no longer jest at you okes and your powerless situation...

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Steamy Tom said:
We haven't had one evening loadshedding this month, probably had like 4 on the schedule...
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We didn't even get shedded during the 2am to 6am slot which is unusual. Perhaps they've broken something at the local switch?

Two more sheds scheduled for today. 2pm to 4:30pm and 10pm to 2:30am.
 
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