Help !!!
May 1st 2006, 11:18 am
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Re: Help !!!
Originally Posted by cresta57
It could be a problem with the main grid that's causing your bulbs to blow. Power here is not regulated the same as it is in the U.K. The voltage is highly irregular both above 220V and below. The low power is referred to as brownouts it can damage electric motors & particularly fridge compressors. Surges tend to momentarily make the lights glow brighter.
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
We've had about 10 blow and we've only been in the house 5 months shocking isn't it
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
We've had about 10 blow and we've only been in the house 5 months shocking isn't it
, but still not right.But I live in a block of apartments...and other people have got their lights on.
I've got none now
May 1st 2006, 11:20 am
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Re: Help !!!
Originally Posted by fraser
Wait until it's light and then isolate it and have a look.
May 1st 2006, 11:20 am
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[QUOTE=cresta57]It could be a problem with the main grid that's causing your bulbs to blow. Power here is not regulated the same as it is in the U.K. The voltage is highly irregular both above 220V and below. The low power is referred to as brownouts it can damage electric motors & particularly fridge compressors. Surges tend to momentarily make the lights glow brighter.
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
Yip, thats what it sounds like
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
Yip, thats what it sounds like
May 1st 2006, 11:21 am
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Re: Help !!!
[QUOTE=Margaret2]
thats what I thought too 
Originally Posted by cresta57
It could be a problem with the main grid that's causing your bulbs to blow. Power here is not regulated the same as it is in the U.K. The voltage is highly irregular both above 220V and below. The low power is referred to as brownouts it can damage electric motors & particularly fridge compressors. Surges tend to momentarily make the lights glow brighter.
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
Yip, thats what it sounds like
As a side issue get a UPS for your sensitive electrical items.
Yip, thats what it sounds like
May 1st 2006, 11:22 am
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Re: Help !!!
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
I have thought that electric is dodgy here....not as bad as Italy where you can't have 3 things on at the same time , but still not right.
But I live in a block of apartments...and other people have got their lights on.
I've got none now
, but still not right.But I live in a block of apartments...and other people have got their lights on.
I've got none now
May 1st 2006, 11:23 am
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Re: Help !!!
The wiring is freaked out and is hiding up a tree - give it some prozac 
[QUOTE=carolinegorka]
[QUOTE=carolinegorka]
Originally Posted by Margaret2
thats what I thought too
May 1st 2006, 11:24 am
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Re: Help !!!
Originally Posted by cresta57
Just read your other post about it knocking out the breaker each time. It does sound like a faulty connection somewhere. Our breaker trips if one of the halogen globes blow but not when normal 40 or 60 watt globes blow.
What scared me was the bang and smell of smoke when they went.
May 1st 2006, 11:24 am
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[QUOTE=Sass73]The wiring is freaked out and is hiding up a tree - give it some prozac
It's me that needs the Prozac !
It's me that needs the Prozac !
May 1st 2006, 11:27 am
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Re: Help !!!
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Are all your bulbs blowing or just the same one?
Originally Posted by Sass73
The wiring is freaked out and is hiding up a tree - give it some prozac
It's me that needs the Prozac !
It's me that needs the Prozac !
May 1st 2006, 11:28 am
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Originally Posted by wmoore
Hmm. Hadn't thought this through. I agree so it's not much of a wager is it?
May 1st 2006, 11:28 am
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Are all your bulbs blowing or just the same one?
All of them.......circuit goes at the same time.
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
Are all your bulbs blowing or just the same one?
May 1st 2006, 11:31 am
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I think you need to isolate the circuit, do you know where the fuse box is and which switch you need to knock off?
Originally Posted by fraser
All of them.......circuit goes at the same time.
May 1st 2006, 11:31 am
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Can you not try them one at a time?
Originally Posted by fraser
All of them.......circuit goes at the same time.
May 1st 2006, 11:32 am
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Are all your bulbs blowing or just the same one?
Oh this is fun, I've learned more about electrics tonight than I have in me whole life : D
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
Are all your bulbs blowing or just the same one?
May 1st 2006, 11:34 am
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I think you need to isolate the circuit, do you know where the fuse box is and which switch you need to knock off?
I did that the first time it happened tonight (lounge light when I switched it on)...power came back...then I went into the kitchen, switched on the light...and that one went.
Both times it happened the fuse went with a bang, and I could smell smoke - I'm in total darkness apart from the PC and a candle - so I'm not messing about with it.
I need an electrician.
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
I think you need to isolate the circuit, do you know where the fuse box is and which switch you need to knock off?
Both times it happened the fuse went with a bang, and I could smell smoke - I'm in total darkness apart from the PC and a candle - so I'm not messing about with it.
I need an electrician.