Posted by
Matthew McEwen
Tonight the power went off, which is normally not a bad thing with the UPS to keep an
Uninterrupted Power Supply (acronyms!) and a generator that kicks in about 30 seconds later. No resetting the DVD or other minor inconveniences like that. But lately there's been a problem with the generator in which it either fails to start up at all or it revs up and the whole apartment flickers. Even though the generator is two floors below us, it makes an extremely loud noise. Tonight it revved over and over with the lights fading to black and then returning to full brightness at least 20 times. My fear is that it's
going to send a lethal set of voltage through the
sub par wiring in the
apartment and blow or fry everything electronic. After I sat staring at the computer screen and watching the lights fade on and off for a few moments, I finally decided to move to a safe distance to see what would happened. Luckily nothing exploded and the power return shortly but it does stand to remind me that we live in Dhaka. (I guess some Californians could relate with the rolling brownouts)
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3 comments:
Well with all that cool stuff you guys shipped over, I am glad that nothing blew up. Blowing up Godzilla= cool. Your TV and computer blowing up due to a faulty generator= not cool.
I live right above the generator and wear my Bose headphones whenever it is on. makes a huge difference.
Oh!! BTW Stephen, The Ozz, my friend Luciano, and myself are having a "Blackout" show at Stephens for New Years Eve". We are video taping and will sen you a copy for sure. Its not a reunion ss you, Steve, and Chris will not be there so consider it Blackout 2.0 TTYL
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