Quiet weekend ahead...

Commiserations Hook.

Perhaps it is time to curl up with and improving book and open a bottle of wine.

The hifi will sound all the better when power is restored.

On a practical note I would switch off and unplug your hifi and any other sensitive equipment.  When the power is resumed there may be surges and other strange things happening.  Not good for transistors.

Keep smiling

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We get about one 'brown out' per week where I live. Often this will be for 20 mins at night while we are in bed and we hear the aircon stop but it could be for up to 8 hours a day although this happens about once every 2 months. 

If it happens during the day or the evening I have to walk through the garden to the generator shed and start the damn thing. It is a big ugly old diesel engine and it makes a racket. When I get back to the house the power is restored and so I walk back through the garden and turn the engine off. When I get back to the house the power goes off again and I have to go back and turn the engine on again.......this only happens when it is windy and raining hard. 

We only use it powering lights and laptops and I would not dream of using it to power a bunch of Naim boxes. 

Power cuts are something I know little about it is years since we last had one! Sorry about your situation! 

Been a couple of years since our last outage as well, so have never considered owning a generator.

I like the bottle of wine idea...even though it is not yet noon! :-)

No problem if this only lasts a day or maybe two, but I can see how this could get old real fast.  Still, counting ourselves lucky. Just went for a drive, and there are lots of big trees down, a couple of which have wrecked nearby homes. 

Scary stuff...

Hook

We have occasional power outages, and some spikes.

Not used generators, just accepted the loss, but i do have the hifi connected via a ups system, that gives me an hour to power down the hifi boxes and protect them from any damage.

I know the ups may have a negative impact on the SQ but its worth the minor potential loss to ensure naim boxes are safe

Just found this thread and resurrected it because like many across the UK we've been suffering from power outages due to the violent storms across the Southern UK.  We live in a rural village so several times a year we seem to suffer power cuts but this week has taken the biscuit!  The power has been out twice in a week for over 12 hours each time - this last time around 20 hours so in desperation I rushed out today and bought a 2.2KW inverter generator, a  20 litre jerry can and a 25m cable reel.  Seems I'm not alone because three local shops were out of stock and explained that they had all sold out this morning so the missus and I had to drive 25 miles to another store to buy one.  I'm currently recouperating from an ankle op on crutches and in a plastic cast so pretty immobile and don't mind admitting that spending a day stuck in the house earlier in the week reading all day got a bit dull.

I had planned to buy an unregulated generator which of course is cheaper but as we want it to power stuff like TV, laptop, router (not planning to risk projector or naim with it!) as well as lighting and fridge I was persuaded to spend nearly double (£470 eek!) to get an inverter one more suited to powering electronics.  Needless to say I arrived home keen to try it all out to find the power back on!!

Buyers remorse is a terrible thing although it's one of those things a bit like insurance that you hope never to use but which is very helpful a few times a year I suppose.

Jonathan

Jonathan - You can now go out and spend many 10s of K£s and get a mobile home to use the generator for when you go on vacation...

That set-up would also come in handy for watching a few mountain stages of the TDF .

Nice one Derek - another expensive hobby I can't afford ;-))  We are campers and the missus was convinced it would be useful for our 'glamping' trips until I switched it on and she realised it sounds like a lawn mower!  I guess it could be used in remote unpopular campsites whose owners are deaf!!

The good news is the power failed again yesterday in the afternoon for about 5 hours so we were practically skipping around with glee as we set it up!!  Actually I was contemplating buying a few more of them, coupling them up to the consumer unit and marketing myself locally as a competitor to Southern Electric ;-))   'Gorse power' has a certain uniqueness to it and my service could hardly be less reliable than the board!! 

Jonathan

Your power outages are part of the privilege of living in the stockbroker belt.

Be grateful you are not in the real elite areas and having floods as well. <g>