[QUOTE=Pollyana]Show us your generator then Mark.......I'll make you an offer.

Yep Pol, no need for it at all, waiting for the offenders apology, if they are big and strong enough to realise rudeness is not necessary.

M

[QUOTE=Pollyana]Show us your generator then Mark.......I'll make you an offer. [\Pollyana]

I hope it bloody works

[QUOTE=Phoenixuk2oz] If not, do the Del Boy bit and give it a good whack!

M

I hope you mean the generator and not Polly

Tis de generator LOL

Good...just wanted to clarify

[QUOTE=didutts]
Quick question (or questions) really......

We live near London and have seen our fair share of things in the past regards late night yobbos throwing bottles, fighting in the street etc etc.

We're moving to either Fairlight/Manly/Seaforth/Harbord/Balgowlah in about 2 months and wondered what the "yob culture" was like over there?

Is Sydney as bad as some places around Bedfordshire? Luton? Some places of London? OR, does it depend where you are/when you're there etc?


Is Australia less of a "Yob Culture" environment than UK?


VIEWS PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Ta [QUOTE]

seems a strange thread to start in view of what you've just posted on here

Brownouts like this can cause far more damage to PC systems than power surges - a surge protector will prevent high voltages entering your PC/connected equipment (after the sensing circuit cuts in anyway....) but usually these would just blow a fuse in the power supply, maybe motherboard damage... brownouts cause continual resets of the sub systems that make up your pc, and the hard disk in particular is very sensitive to this - the heads float above the disk surface at such a small distance - If i remember correctly the gap is so small that the wavelength of visible light is not able to pass through (explanation on request!) and this is held up by the GMR head of the hard drive. When the voltage is very low and the head is not in the park position (ie away from the platters) the continual resetting of the drive can cause head collision with the surface with all the lovely side effects of corrupted data... sorry, geekish moment...

But yeah, a cheap UPS (doesnt have to power the comp for long, only act as a buffer in the power supply chain) would provide much more protection for not that much more cash.. just make sure its one that is 'always in line' rather than one that switches in when the power drops too low/goes too high, these are not much better than your surge protector due to the switch in time. The always in line ones charge a battery system from the mains, then the inverter for your PC runs from the battery... hence anything that happens to the mains is buffered through the battery.

Eek, long post!

[QUOTE=possoms][QUOTE=didutts]
Quick question (or questions) really......

We live near London and have seen our fair share of things in the past regards late night yobbos throwing bottles, fighting in the street etc etc.

We're moving to either Fairlight/Manly/Seaforth/Harbord/Balgowlah in about 2 months and wondered what the "yob culture" was like over there?

Is Sydney as bad as some places around Bedfordshire? Luton? Some places of London? OR, does it depend where you are/when you're there etc?


Is Australia less of a "Yob Culture" environment than UK?


VIEWS PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Ta Agreed.

Yep they must have just read "How to win friends and influence people", some people just don't have a clue.

Disappointing attitude from them and I am sure they won't get much support from this site.

M

Pollyana,

just for you, here is one like mine, a red one, wheras mine is Black.


Bye
Mark

Hiya jas_uk,
you are quite right, a UPS would be better. You can get one's that connect via the serialport (suppose it's usb nowaday's) that shut the PC down when they are about to run out.

A laptop might be an easier option though.

Bye
Mark

Where l live in OZ l usually have around three blackouts a year that don't last more then 2 hours. Often it happens when a car crashes into a pole that carries an above ground power line. Australia's probably alot better then many other 1st world countries, was'nt all of New York blacked out a year ago. Atleast you are'nt going to freeze to death as you would in a Canadian or northern UK winter. Getting solar power is a good idea if you can afford
the 15 grand, the OZ government pays part of the cost l think around 10-15%

Wonbat42,
I looked into it when I found on the forum the costs of putting mains onto a new site.

The UK isn't the best place for off grid living via solar power, wheras Oz with lots of sunshine should be much better.

Bye
Mark

Odd comment, seeing that the same gov't alledgedly skims nearly 95% of the profits from Energex/Ergon and pays for the funeral of the chap who alledgedly renovated his house with alledgedly embezzaled money before dying in a traffic accident and so far as I am aware not attempt to recover the money has been or will be made. Strange that the report on the matter was tabled in Cabinet not the Parliament, which means the FOI Act does not apply and that the real story would be secret to the public for decades.

One business owner tried to claim compensation recently for lost food and income resulting from a blackout. His claim was rejected, so what hope have ordinary consumers got.

Not a bad idea to provide your own generator but quite impractical in the city where your neighbour is less than 3m from your house and would complain like heck and solar power is not really feasible as it takes about 12 years before you get any real return economically. It is also impossible to install on rented properties for the same reason.
Had a sparkie here only a few weeks ago and he said that most places, especially those built years ago aren't equipped to handle the load put on them, for the same reason as the power grid.