Please Hurry Up and Charge Me for Power!

[Michael Alexander]

I sincerely wish that the council would hurry up and start charging for power.

This morning, I have just been informed by our store electrician that yet another compressor has gone down to earth.
That makes 7 compressors in 7 months for us. Three of them bombing out in the same evening . Two of those were on units that were brand new, not even a year old.

My insurance agents are getting fed up, suspicious at all my claims...... so can the POWERs that be, please hand over the reigns of power to the relevant authorities in order for me to submit claims against them for delivering BROWN power to us......

No! It's not a lekker day......

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Where were the units made.....?

[Michael Alexander]

I am not too sure, except for the last one......Austria...

[SandyB]

Surely insurers should know there are power problems ?? apart from the " brown power " eskom  have jacked the voltage from 220 - 240 average , and I mean average  to try reduce ampere load on grid ,, In  most cases with stable power supply it should not be an issue , but there are the brown moments and then the spikes  taking voltage way beyond 240 .. thats death for some equipment , We had capacitive sensors in the factory that were rated 220/ 230 , that started to fail in quick succession . And we have servo motor drives from Baldor that cannot take the pain  , they are also failing at a rate , very inconvenient , especially when they seem to have built in obsolescence , ie want to repair its a new motor  to match the new drive .. $$$