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what are the chances of a power outage in a wind advisory? There is a power outage in my county and it's been poring rain all day! What are the chances of there being a power outage. If there already is a power outage in your area like you said there is, then I'd say that there is a 100% chance.
If there isn't one already, the chance can be anything. All depends on where the windy conditions happen and how high the winds get.

Can I us a power inverter with my car running for our annual power outage? We have a power outage once each winter. Once it lasted for 25 hours. We lost everything in the refrigerator & some freezer items. What if I used an inverter with my car running periodically at home to power a freezer and refrigerator which need a total of 2000 watts? ?winter ? use it like an ice box. here in the summer it gets to 100 a lot. i keep 3 liter soda bottles with water froze to help divert cost.

Can a power outage cause an hdmi port to stop working? I have a Sharp Aquos lcd tv. It has two hdmi inputs with a samsung dvd player, and a PS3 hooked up. They worked perfectly, then we had a power outage, and the next day the hdmi connections don't work. I've already tried reconfiguring the devices (setting output to hdmi) with no luck. Could the ports be bad? Anything is possible. The HDMI input is digital and the tv cpu needs to sync the data to the input device. With this being the case, this is a common phenomenon with power loss and probably just needs re-setting. Unplug the tv for a minute and then re-plug it in. The system will probably re-initiate itself and work fine.

How do you prepare for a power outage? We're supposed to have a major power outage in Seattle on Sunday because of a huge windstorm. Wind chill is supposed to be near 0. I've never had to deal with long power outages, because in the last huge windstorm we lost power for about 12 hours. So how should I prepare for a major power outage? invite over some warm bodies

Power Outage? My lights have been out since last Thursday, and the temps have not gotten above freezing generally speaking. Is it ok to eat the food in my fridge? If it's been that cold, most of your food is probably still okay. Give it a sniff, just in case. Also, when your power comes back, check your freezer stuff -- anything that's totally thawed should be used ASAP or thrown away.
Is your computer running off a battery?

power Outage? My power went out. What time is it? Irv S would if i'm addicted to Yahoo answer 4.33 east coast 13 min late

power outage..........? I was messing with an outlet trying to get it to come out considering that it was pushed in too far. While i was pulling it out to its normal placement the power went out in the 2 rooms closest to the outlet. I messed with the electrical box and everythings fine now. Did I pull something while I was pulling it out to cause a power outage or anything? Thanks You probably pulled on a wire that had a loose connection. Obviously, the connection has been made again for the moment. But, if the wire pulls out that easily, I would recommend replacing the receptacle (with the power off). This is likely to give you more problems, and rather soon.
A lot of homes are wired with receptacles using 'stab-in-the-back' connections. These are actually still in use and are deemed safe for installation. The problem is that they have a terrible failure rate. The term 'stab-in-the-back' also applies to what they do to you later. They are just a bad product, regardless of the manufacturer. This is why the wire pulled out so easily. Any replacement should have screw terminal connections.
For my work (troubleshooting and repair), 'stab-in-the-back' connections are "good job security, not a good job"

Power outage...? I have BGE and every time we have a storm or the wind blows even slightly, the power goes out. It's really annoying because this is happening more often with the occurence of these recent tornadoes and thunderstorms and it takes forever for BGE to get the power back on. On the other hand, my friend, who is with Smeco doesn't ever lose power. Why are BGE lines so sensitive? Anyone have BGE/the same problem or know why this only happens with BGE? There really is no category for this question, so I chose this one. When I moved home about 16 years ago, into a new house on a new estate, we used to suffer power outages fairly frequently for a few years, and they always seemed To be during heavy rainfall. After about five years they became less frequent but still did occur after rainfall. Then about 4 years ago we had a lot of outages within a few months.
This led to the power company investigating what was happening. They found a damaged cable that feeds the substation on the estate. It had apparently been damaged when the estate was being built, but had taken years to deteriorate to the extent that the fault could be found.
The choice of supplier does not have any effect on the reliability of supply, but the effectiveness of their response to faults does.

How is the source of a power outage located? The other day my entire neighborhood lost power, about 20 square blocks. It took almost 10 hours for power to be restored. Several hours into this someone called the power company and were told they were "still locating the problem." It got me wondering, how do they sniff out the source of the outage? I would have thought the power company would have a big screen with a map of the city or something, so they could easily say "the problem is on this block" but apparently not. Do they have to drive around town and manually try to connect a circuit between various electrical boxes? Just thought maybe someone here works for a power company and could answer this. Most electric utilities do not have the “big screen” map of the entire distribution system. Transmission systems have computerized displays, but those are mostly point-to-point with intelligent substations at each end.
Some utilities have an automated meter reading system (AMR) that reports loss of power. However most utilities still rely on customers calling in to report the outage. If only one person calls, the problem is suspected to be limited to that one customer. Two or more or more outage calls on the same transformer are analyzed as a transformer outage. Calls from multiple transformers on the same phase of the same circuit are analyzed as a device (i.e. fuse) outage. To some extent, the more customers affected, the higher the restoration priority.
Troubleshooting an electric power outage depends on the type of installation. Overhead systems tend to have fused taps off the main line of the circuit. Any problem on a tap will blow an individual fuse, minimizing the extent of the outage. If the problem is on the mainline, the line workers need to visually patrol the line looking for the case of trouble. In many applications they use switches to isolate sections and temporarily route power from a nearby circuit. This can quickly restore power to a large group of customers while they continue to trouble shoot.
Underground circuits are much more difficult to find, since nothing is visible. Equipment is often daisy-chained together in a giant loop. The utility uses fault circuit indicators (FCI) to tell whether the surge of fault current went past that location. They basically have to check piece of equipment looking at the FCI’s. If they see a target, they know the fault current went past that point. Once they find an unfaulted FCI, they know they went too far. The problem is not isolated between the faulted and unfaulted FCI’s. They can now isolate the cable segment and restore power to the front portion. They also go to an open switch to an adjacent circuit and feed backwards to the equipment with the unfaulted FCI.
Some of the delays in the troubleshooting and restoration process include:
1) Inaccessible equipment. Customer fences, trees, bushes, etc can prevent the workers from opening the doors to check the FCI status.
2) Circuits that in an abnormal switching condition or out-dated maps that do not represent the actual connectivity of the circuit.
3) Fault circuit indicators that did not sense the fault current and do not provide the proper indication. This causes incorrect conclusions regarding the location of the outage and the workers can close into a fault while trying to restore service.
4) Successive faults. The surge of fault current that caused the initial outage also caused collateral damage to other upstream equipment. The workers will troubleshoot the first problem and close into the second fault while trying to restore service.
5) Some overhead equipment such as insulators and arresters can fail in ways that make it difficult to see the problem. This makes troubleshooting very time consuming.
6) Miss-coordination of fuses or other protective devices. Most electrical circuits have multiple over-current devices in series. The devices are intended to operate so the one closest to the fault condition operates. If an upstream device operates first, the workers will be troubleshooting the wrong segment of the circuit.
7) Staffing levels. If you have more outages than lineworkers, the dispatchers must decide which outages to investigate and restore first. In general, outages with the most customers get priority. Other factors include critical customers such as hospitals, police stations, water and sewage treatment plants, airports, etc.
The “Smart Grid” of the future will bring intelligence to the distribution system.
- Some technologies will help pinpoint the location of the problem and display the information on a mobile terminal in the line worker’s vehicle.
- Other technologies will sense the outage and automatically reroute power around the problem area -- restoring service to most customers without any human intervention.
- Advanced equipment can even sense "pre-fault" conditions and notify workers to take proactive steps and prevent outages before they happen.
- All of this equipment is expensive. It will take substantial time and money to incorporate the technologies in distribution systems that has been evolving for over 100 years.

How do I reset my GE dishwasher after a power outage? Dishwasher was working just fine until a power outage that lasted about 20 min. When the power was restored, the dishwasher had no power and an alarm (sounds like a smoke alarm) was going off. We reset the breaker and the same thing occurred. The dishwasher is the GE Adora Quiet Power II Mod: GHDA960K03BB. The manual doesn't address anything like this at all. Anyone know what is going on? The washer isn't in the middle of a cycle when this occurs. Using the controls on the washer itself, terminate the current cycle--usually hit the "off" button on the machine which should reset it. Then, start a new cycle.
This works on my Miele machine when I lose either power or, more recently, water pressure and the alarm goes off like a banshee.

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