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

[moklet]

Next news flash "Stage 4"

 

[DarkStarMonday]

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.

I totally agree with you, I was in Tanzania a few years back doing some work there for a few months - at least we do have " working infrastructure " here, road, power grid and other things. ( For now )

 

[Oldfut]

Fantastic advert for solar power and generator etc providers. Escum.

 

[Lupus]

Fantastic advert for solar power and generator etc providers. Escum.

Solar power guys were solidly booked out until Christmas last year, it doesn't look any better this year. Even the generator guys are going through weekends now.

 

[Moosedrool]

Power was out in Roodepoort on Sunday. My place has a nice view over wilropark and roodekrans and it was just a bit crazy to see that it doesn't look like too much of a power outage when you see nearly every home is still lit up.

 

[Priapus]

Solar power guys were solidly booked out until Christmas last year, it doesn't look any better this year. Even the generator guys are going through weekends now.

Yeah the guy who supplied my stuff in 2019 has been almost non stop busy since then. Each time LS is announced, he gets busier.

 

[now05ster]

Not so in rural areas....Generally only a few tranmitters around.

It the first time that I will have LS while on MTN. Let's hope it's not too crappy in my area.

 

[Lupus]

Power was out in Roodepoort on Sunday. My place has a nice view over wilropark and roodekrans and it was just a bit crazy to see that it doesn't look like too much of a power outage when you see nearly every home is still lit up.

Not in Wilgeheuwel, a few houses here or there scattered about were still partially lit up. But it was otherwise pitch black as it will be tonight.

 

[pinball wizard]

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

Rock bottom is a challenge for Eskom. They will meet it with blasting dynamite and jackhammers. The only way is down.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

/me pats his Mecer 2400VA Inverter

 

[DarkStarMonday]

Rock bottom is a challenge for Eskom. They will meet it with blasting dynamite and jackhammers. The only way is down.

Well got my pot of coffee brewing, think I'm going to turn it into an Irish !! ... before the power goes off lol

 

[Lupus]

/me pats his Mecer 2400VA Inverter

Pats you back...

 

[Gaz{M}]

Now how will we all feel paying 20-50% more for electricity, and still having none..

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Someone selling rocks again to ESKOM instead of Coal
Kaboom

 

[Azure 12]

"4th industrial revolution", "free Internet for all", "work from home" ...

... "please switch off...", "together we can make a difference"

 

[AlphaJohn]

/me pats his Mecer 2400VA Inverter

Well I am also ready
and excited as this gives me opportunity to real world test my new 24V100AH LiFePO4's on a Mecer 2400VA

 

[deweyzeph]

Well I am also ready
and excited as this gives me opportunity to real world test my new 24V100AH LiFePO4's on a Mecer 2400VA

Same here, I recently replaced the old lead acid batteries in my power trolley with a new pair of LiFePO4 batteries and haven't had a chance to test it properly in a full loadshedding scenario.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

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 ?

And I need to fill up the generator this evening and all my jerry cans. I can already hear my bank cards crying to make the bad man stop.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

And I need to fill up the generator this evening and all my jerry cans. I can already hear my bank cards crying to make the bad man stop.

That's why you need a small grid tied system, even a 1.5KW will do, just to offset the daily running costs when there is ESKOM

 

[Lupus]

Same here, I recently replaced the old lead acid batteries in my power trolley with a new pair of LiFePO4 batteries and haven't had a chance to test it properly in a full loadshedding scenario.

My new 1500w inverters got tested on Sunday, even with just 1 120ah lead acid they managed the almost 6 hours without an issue. But we were only using 110w at most on it.