Today brownout or blackout?

11:00 AM   120.5 volts

Eeekkk! How far are you from the roadway? Down here the greedy bastards crank the voltage way up. I typically see 247 on a delta. What gave you the idea to check it?

Orlando76 wrote: Eeekkk! How far are you from the roadway? Down here the greedy bastards crank the voltage way up. I typically see 247 on a delta. What gave you the idea to check it?

Todd,
Yes, they have pushed the volts over the years. It sure is their easy way to get the power out there without infrastructure improvement.

I just got 241 at the panel and my service drop is only about 150' form the 4160. Interesting I also just got 121 (on both legs) so, that's an increase from my previous reading. I suspect they cranked up a peaker up here.

Our electric company has decided to charge ridiculous Peak hour charges.
From 4 PM to 8 PM they have nearly doubled the rates while slightly lowering the rates off peak.   
Just what you want, get off work and come home to cool off and it costs double.

I am playing with my thermostats and experimenting with lowering the house temps from 2-4 PM then shutting it off till 8 PM.   We have not exceeded 100 yet in the new billing system but so far that is working. Cool it off to 74 before the shut down and the temps inside rise to about 79 by 8 PM when AC kicks back on to cool off for bed.

A major heat wave with no AC, I feel for you guys, you better spend the night out on the lake! Get a ski in early before going to work.

Pete

Over here around Minocqua..it's 86F currently...and humid..yUCK. My oldest boys are back at home at our place down in LaCrosse. THey are expected to see heat index of 105 or so today. I told them to keep house closed up, curtains closed, so the central air doesn't have to work so hard. Tomorrow will be DEFINITE relief for us I think.

We were going to take the boat out, but I think we MAY just walk down to the beach and hang in the water for a couple hours before the storms roll in later tonight.

Faceplant wrote: Skied early this morning then just floated on mattresses. throughout the day.

We (Deep Lake Ski Guys) from 11:30 to 3PM. Everybody skied three times. We jumped in to cool off once in awhile too. Life is good. What heat?

We made it through our "heat wave" up here. A cold front came through the area last night along with some mild T storms. Looking at the weather throughout the US, it looks like others still have the heat. We never got to the point of having even a slight "brown out". The lowest reading I got 120. The only issue yesterday and then today is my Frontier internet. They must be having some problems!! It took me at least 5 minutes to get this posted!

Mark,
I love the winter too.

MrMcD wrote: Our electric company has decided to charge ridiculous Peak hour charges. From 4 PM to 8 PM they have nearly doubled the rates while slightly lowering the rates off peak.    Just what you want, get off work and come home to cool off and it costs double.

You can thank your utility regulators and the legislators for that. When Cali went away from coal-fired generation, power cost significantly increased. Too many uninformed folks think that you can eat rainbows and poop unicorns -- just because you WANT to. Up-front capital cost for renewable energy infrastructure isn't cheap.

(I'll get off my soapbox now)

JQ

Wow. It was in the 90’s and we were playing some funky frisbee beer game when the cold front arrived with a 20 degree drop and 30+ gusts with whitecaps! Then the waves and wind came to test my lousy Qualified Captain knots (which held!). Now we are supposed to get the severe thunderstorm warning and who knows what.

Hope to get back out when it passes!

Pete, lost power an hour ago up here in Maine on Mousam Lake. Estimated time of service restoration 7:30 pm. It’s at least 95 out

So if you put your phone in a bowl while playing music the sound doubles. And I kept the gallons of water when my point died.. number one outside. We are fine and going to jump right into then lake again.. so glad I’m not at home in Boston.

tryathlete wrote: Gary S wrote: Oh I see Pete- you won't put alcohol in your engines which can easily be replaced but it's ok for your liver Those are easily replaced My liver can handle a little alcohol now and then.

Gary,
They all say that they don't have a problem with alcohol!
Peter's doctor sent me this picture of his liver:

Pete—I so like your aerial pic of your property. It’s gorgeous!

Jeff,
How long were you without power?