Stage 2 load shedding announced from 11am today till 5am Monday

[Snyper564]

My ISP stays up perfectly during load shedding, hell even during the massive outage on Sunday night where the whole of Roodepoort was down, but cellular wow it's on 3G the second the power goes off. I have my alarm hooked up to my battery backup solution, so it rarely knows when the power is off.

Our telkom is ok, MTN is dead though

 

[Lupus]

I wish we had 3G during loadshedding. In my area we have absolutely no cellphone signal from any of the providers during loadshedding.

3G is barely useable though :-(

 

[Solitude]

My ISP stays up perfectly during load shedding, hell even during the massive outage on Sunday night where the whole of Roodepoort was down, but cellular wow it's on 3G the second the power goes off. I have my alarm hooked up to my battery backup solution, so it rarely knows when the power is off.

Hmmm I haven't actually checked my cellular since we moved to Little Falls. Will have a look when the power is off.

Luckily our fibre stays on and I've got the routers on backup power.

 

[deweyzeph]

3G is barely useable though :-(

Luckily Openserve Fibre stays up for us and wifi calling works well, but if that had to go down we'd be screwed with absolutely no way to contact the outside world. I'm seriously considering getting a satellite phone as a backup.

 

[Lupus]

Hmmm I haven't actually checked my cellular since we moved to Little Falls. Will have a look when the power is off.

Luckily our fibre stays on and I've got the routers on backup power.

Could've checked on Sunday we were down for 5 hours.

 

[Solitude]

Could've checked on Sunday we were down for 5 hours.

Didn't think to check then.

 

[Lupus]

Didn't think to check then.

Yeah my inverter+battery setup in the rooms held nicely, managed 3 hours of Netflix without an issue, only around 10 to midnight did it start beeping that it was getting close to 50%, but it also could've been them trying to flick the power on, as the power did come on five minutes later.

 

[DarkStarMonday]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1488734965886078980

OMFGOOOLLLY !! hahaha !

lol .... Didn't they something about no loadshedding until the end of the year ?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Octotel in Somerset West at least stay up. Also using a router UPS gives me 3-4 hours of uptime.

But first, I had to struggle to test run the generator this morning for the wife. At least she can work today during load shedding.

 

[Lupus]

OMFGOOOLLLY !! hahaha !

lol .... Didn't they something about no loadshedding until the end of the year ?

Well they sort of did, but they also said there were a possibility of 26 days till the end of March, their financial year end is March so technically that is also their "end of the year"

 

[Lupus]

Octotel in Somerset West at least stay up. Also using a router UPS gives me 3-4 hours of uptime.

But first, I had to struggle to test run the generator this morning for the wife. At least she can work today during load shedding.

Yeah my router ups used to last 9 hours, now it's down to just under 6, like 5:50 or something . Then again the router maybe using a bit more power as it's routing to 2 other routers during power outages, as those routers are on inverter/batteries.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Yeah my router ups used to last 9 hours, now it's down to just under 6, like 5:50 or something . Then again the router maybe using a bit more power as it's routing to 2 other routers during power outages, as those routers are on inverter/batteries.

My dad streams non stop, he is the power drain on my UPS and Eskom

 

[DarkStarMonday]

Well they sort of did, but they also said there were a possibility of 26 days till the end of March, their financial year end is March so technically that is also their "end of the year"

So...

R20 / Litre of petrol and load shedding to greet us in Feb, **** me I wonder what the rest of the year has installed for us ...

" We are rock bottom, only way is up " !! Right ?

 

[dielaksman]

Ah yes, they wanted a price increase, NERSA said no, so que the loadshedding.

 

[Lupus]

So...

R20 / Litre of petrol and load shedding to greet us in Feb, **** me I wonder what the rest of the year has installed for us ...

" We are rock bottom, only way is up " !! Right ?

Well we did have load shedding last Feb and the Feb before that :-( but both times petrol was cheaper. I mean at one point my gennie was using 120 bucks of petrol now it will be R200.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

What puzzles me is that we have had load shedding for more than 10 years, yet people are still not prepared for it.
And you don't have to spend a lot.
When we build the house we just put gas stove instead of electric. That covers food, coffee etc.
Small brick batteries that I use for camping and fishing anyway, to use for lights
Cheap R300 inverter with a brick battery run the fiber for 3+ hours. And you can Netflix/work or whatever on your phones and tablets that is charged. Can even charge them on the small batteries.

 

[Lupus]

What puzzles me is that we have had load shedding for more than 10 years, yet people are still not prepared for it.
And you don't have to spend a lot.
When we build the house we just put gas stove instead of electric. That covers food, coffee etc.
Small brick batteries that I use for camping and fishing anyway, to use for lights
Cheap R300 inverter with a brick battery run the fiber for 3+ hours. And you can Netflix/work or whatever on your phones and tablets that is charged. Can even charge them on the small batteries.

Going on 15 years now actually. There were years of no load shedding though.
A lot of people do have what you have, but a lot of people want more. Over the years I've had 2 generators, I've got 4 inverters with batteries scattered around the house (worked out cheaper then 1 3kw with less batteries).

 

[rh1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1488734965886078980

So...

R20 / Litre of petrol and load shedding to greet us in Feb, **** me I wonder what the rest of the year has installed for us ...

" We are rock bottom, only way is up " !! Right ?

Nope, rock bottom is still coming. Hint: Zimbabwe, should give you an idea.

They are busy decolonising health care at the moment. Roads in many towns have been decolonised, but many roads are still operable. Most public schools have been decolonised, so that the learners are practically unemployable straight out of school.

It is a work in progress. I used to hope I would not see rock bottom in my lifetime, but it is coming.

 

[Priapus]

/looks at solar panels on the roof,


Cool, you do you Eskom.

 

[DarkStarMonday]

What puzzles me is that we have had load shedding for more than 10 years, yet people are still not prepared for it.
And you don't have to spend a lot.
When we build the house we just put gas stove instead of electric. That covers food, coffee etc.
Small brick batteries that I use for camping and fishing anyway, to use for lights
Cheap R300 inverter with a brick battery run the fiber for 3+ hours. And you can Netflix/work or whatever on your phones and tablets that is charged. Can even charge them on the small batteries.

Now just imagine if we didn't have any of that you mentioned above ? a good life ? oh wait that ended in the 2000's ...