The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

fade

fade

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Same here. Should be mid 90s to hundreds regularly by now, but it's nice. Well except for the flooding and death.
 
drifter

drifter

fade said:
Man, in 2004, I scrimped and saved for my Wacom Graphire3. I think I paid over $100 bucks, which was a small fortune for me back then, being fresh out of grad school and with a new kid. It still works--I use it for Fade. Monoprice just dropped this

http://deals.kinja.com/even-starving-artists-can-afford-this-monoprice-graphic-1780375366

which blows the Graphire3 (naturally) out of the water and only costs $35.
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Aww, price is back up over $50 and back ordered. That's still hella cheap, but moves it out of impulse purchase territory for me.
 
fade

fade

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I am up because the power went out in a weird way I had not seen before. It kept intermittently flicking on for maybe a tenth of a second. Which was probably just great for everything electronic in my house. I could see the whole neighborhood was flickering on the same. It finally went fully off. I checked the power company's outage map and it looks like this whole section of the city is out.
 
strawman

strawman

fade said:
I am up because the power went out in a weird way I had not seen before. It kept intermittently flicking on for maybe a tenth of a second. Which was probably just great for everything electronic in my house. I could see the whole neighborhood was flickering on the same. It finally went fully off. I checked the power company's outage map and it looks like this whole section of the city is out.
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Your section is capable of being connected to the grid at several points. When something goes wrong, the system attempts to reconnect you to a different grid. If you have multiple points of connection (many sections, particularly in densely populated areas, have several connections and routing possibilities, not just one or two) then each reconnection can briefly cause power to return for less than a full cycle (about 1/120 of a second) when it trips again due to the short.

Sounds like the short is in your section, it tried reconnecting several times, and then every option agreed there was a problem and all disconnected. Now it takes a human's intervention to investigate the issue.

The automated system only handles large partitions. The humans will have to electronically, or by hand, go around and reconnect smaller sections a little at a time until they narrow down the specific block or small area that's shorting out. This will take time.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

stienman said:
Your section is capable of being connected to the grid at several points. When something goes wrong, the system attempts to reconnect you to a different grid. If you have multiple points of connection (many sections, particularly in densely populated areas, have several connections and routing possibilities, not just one or two) then each reconnection can briefly cause power to return for less than a full cycle (about 1/120 of a second) when it trips again due to the short.

Sounds like the short is in your section, it tried reconnecting several times, and then every option agreed there was a problem and all disconnected. Now it takes a human's intervention to investigate the issue.

The automated system only handles large partitions. The humans will have to electronically, or by hand, go around and reconnect smaller sections a little at a time until they narrow down the specific block or small area that's shorting out. This will take time.
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And if they don't use that time wisely, this happens...
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

stienman said:
What happened there?
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6" of snow in mid-October while leaves were still on the trees. Trees were falling all over town. One fell across our yard and hit the power lines, damaging the service entrance. Power was also out to the rest of the neighborhood.

When the electric company reenergized the neighborhood lines, the damaged service entrance caused a short, which caused a fire. This is just after the firefighters cleared the scene.
 
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