On thursday we had a power cut at 9am, I found out at 4.14 that the power went on so got home at 4.30. Checked everything out spoke to the neighbor who told me what was happening, so i went out and bought a generator. Plugged in my main pump + heater.
We finally go power on at 9.30pm. It was only on for 5 mins until i got a knock at the door fro the women over the road saying that she heard a big bang and can smell smoke. So i popped across and her over, tv and washing machine had blown up. My next door neighbour then asked my to check hers as she heard a bang as well. So check her house her dvd player was smoking and tv went bang as well.
As soon as this happend i turned her board of as well as ours and the women's across the road. I then spoke to the cable joint er and told then what happend. They didn't believe me when i said they must of messed up there joint and mixed a phase and neutral up. He then tested the 2 houses and sure enough he messed the joint up putting 2 different phases into the house meaning rather than 230v it was now 415v. So off the power went again until 1.30 where they said unfortunately most the houses will have to be without power that night.
Thankfully our power was back on. The next day they sent other electricians around to test there houses electrics as well as there appliance. They both lost well over 90% of there appliances, including tv's, ovens, fridges,microwave etc.
All the stock i lost from this was 1 hermit crab and my star polyps. (they had just started to open the day before)
My toadstool has just started to come back to life as well as the kenya tree. My reading didn't really go up much and after a water change the next day they went almost back to normal.
Please make sure you have a form of stand by electric as well as a spare powerhead etc in case something like this happens to you, lucky our power came back on at 1.30am and not the midday the next day!
sorry for the long and boring update but i suppose its a good update at the end of it as i was expecting worse!
chris
We finally go power on at 9.30pm. It was only on for 5 mins until i got a knock at the door fro the women over the road saying that she heard a big bang and can smell smoke. So i popped across and her over, tv and washing machine had blown up. My next door neighbour then asked my to check hers as she heard a bang as well. So check her house her dvd player was smoking and tv went bang as well.
As soon as this happend i turned her board of as well as ours and the women's across the road. I then spoke to the cable joint er and told then what happend. They didn't believe me when i said they must of messed up there joint and mixed a phase and neutral up. He then tested the 2 houses and sure enough he messed the joint up putting 2 different phases into the house meaning rather than 230v it was now 415v. So off the power went again until 1.30 where they said unfortunately most the houses will have to be without power that night.
Thankfully our power was back on. The next day they sent other electricians around to test there houses electrics as well as there appliance. They both lost well over 90% of there appliances, including tv's, ovens, fridges,microwave etc.
All the stock i lost from this was 1 hermit crab and my star polyps. (they had just started to open the day before)
My toadstool has just started to come back to life as well as the kenya tree. My reading didn't really go up much and after a water change the next day they went almost back to normal.
Please make sure you have a form of stand by electric as well as a spare powerhead etc in case something like this happens to you, lucky our power came back on at 1.30am and not the midday the next day!
sorry for the long and boring update but i suppose its a good update at the end of it as i was expecting worse!
chris
