Power outages in Kincora?

[UndrgroundRider]

We seem to average an outage or two every month. Anyone know what the deal is? Currently posting from laptop + iPhone :(

[V6-BoI]

Has this been happening for a while in Kincora?

I live in Coventry, and my brother was telling me last sunday (or last last sunday, can't really remember), and the power was out at night for about an hour and a half. Then today I was in Edgemont and the power went out there twice in the span of a few hours. Maybe something wrong with the city recently?

[R154]

There has been power spikes in the NW for the past 1.5 months. A buddy of mine has been tracking it. 2x brown out in varsity in the last 1 month. Deep nw seems to be similarly affected. seemingly no reason or rhyme. I might call enmax on tuesday.

[benyl]

It went out three times here in Royal Oak too.

[benyl]

Just went out a 4th time... pissing me off.

[Benny]

Yeah my alarm clock reset itself while I was at school. Fuck I hate when that happens haha :banghead:

[R154]

Wow haha, Violent spike in varsity, all the lights (outdoor lamps) flickered 3-5 times over 2< minutes. Must be some problems with a few substations.

[turbotrip]

power went out here in edgemont 3 times today

[Xtrema]

Once in Hamptons today. Long ass one too, during dinner time and can't cook.

[UndrgroundRider]

Right after I posted I saw a broken powerline along stony trail. Looks like the bracket that normally holds it up had given way and was just hanging there. The poll was also on fire at the top.

On my way back home I saw 4-5 service vehicles out there.

Power is still off for now though.

[Cos]

^^ was it a steel tower or a wooden pole? How high? Etc.

[Kloubek]

FINALLY back on. That was a long one!

Thanks for the explaination about the pole - I was wondering what was going on there.

Figured maybe a construction worker took out an underground cable...

[UndrgroundRider]

Originally posted by Cos
^^ was it a steel tower or a wooden pole? How high? Etc.
It was a wooden one. I drove past again on my way out to the theatre and it looks like it may have just been an indicator light and not a fire. Thankfully the power is back on now.

[Cos]

^^ ah it might have burnt too. The moisture can cause it to track from the insulator to the pole so you could have been right.

However a pole of that size couldnt take out that much load. There must have been another problem.

[D'z Nutz]

Yeah we've been in Kincora since Oct/Nov and there's been like 3 outages during our time here and a couple flickers. Last one was on Jan 1st.

[speeed]

It was only one part of Kincora. The house facing my backyard had lights on and everything :guns:

[Cos]

Originally posted by speeed
It was only one part of Kincora. The house facing my backyard had lights on and everything :guns:

yeah but edgemont was out too so the pole underground saw could have caused kincora.

The chance edgemont was tied to that call is pretty small.

[Tik-Tok]

ZOMG, we'd better use tax payer money to put up some serious high power lines going to the border now! Otherwise brownouts could effect the whole city!!1!1!!1

[nobb]

Yup, about 3hrs no power tonight. Had to rig up a small light to a car battery. Weird thing is, a few houses down the street and throughout Kincora seem to have their power on.

A few months ago there was another 2 hr power outage. Oh well, better an outage than a spike.

[Doozer]

Originally posted by benyl
Just went out a 4th time... pissing me off. Weird - I was home in Royal Oak all day with my son, and all I noticed was one half-second blip, that flipped the tv off. Didn't even trip my computer, which stayed on the whole time. :dunno:

[benyl]

Originally posted by Doozer
Weird - I was home in Royal Oak all day with my son, and all I noticed was one half-second blip, that flipped the tv off. Didn't even trip my computer, which stayed on the whole time. :dunno:

Happened 4 times at my house.

It has been happening a lot lately.

[hampstor]

Drove around kincora... it seems only a part of the neighborhood was out. Called into Enmax's outage reporting line - the recording said parts of hidden valley, hawkwood and citadel were out. Then I decided to go out for a drive with my family instead of sitting around in the dark.

After the power came back on, I finally decided to connect the UPS I have sitting in my basement to my server/cable modem/router :rofl:

Seems to be quite a few beyonders in Kincora ...

[Bizzareo]

Wtf, I live in edgemont and have not had any power outages. I live like right beside the lower mac's

[hampstor]

There goes the power again. :facepalm:

Thank god i'm on a laptop and I put the UPS on the server, cable modem and router. :)

Edit: and a few minutes later, power is back!

[D'z Nutz]

Just had another outage. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

[Kloubek]

^^^ Shitty eh? My wife went around resetting all the clocks in the house. Now I had to go do them all again.

This is getting kinda annoying.... wtf.

[sl888]

Just went out in Springbank Hill....

[psycoticclown]

Power went out twice this afternoon in Edgemont for me. Pisses me off.

[Suey]

Originally posted by Doozer
Weird - I was home in Royal Oak all day with my son, and all I noticed was one half-second blip, that flipped the tv off. Didn't even trip my computer, which stayed on the whole time. :dunno:

yeah Same I'm in the estates and it was out for like 2 seconds and then it came back on.


Originally posted by benyl


Happened 4 times at my house.

It has been happening a lot lately.

mm where do you live? the Cascades right?

[vrsc400]

the power blipped on and off a couple of times around 1am here in Valley Ridge
The longest it stayed off was probably only 2 or 3 minutes but on the other side of the community it didnt go out at all

[Zhariak]

In Douglas Glen we've been getting quite a few outages in the past month...

[CLiVE]

Sherwood (by Kincora) was out last night also. Once around 8pm for an hour or so, and then again around 10pm. Frustrating.

[Unknown303]

It's the humidity right now guys. We've been having issues over a large portion of southern Alberta in general over the last two weeks or however long the fog has been around for.

[Cos]

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[benyl]

Originally posted by Suey

mm where do you live? the Cascades right?

Yeah, I am in the Cascades.

I guess it went out at least one more time after I left the house as all the clocks were blinking again.

[colinderksen]

Heavy wet snow/ice fog build up on the lines and mixed with wind can create line breaks, sleeves in the wire letting go ect. All underground power is fed from overhead lines, so if it is a break on a main circuit it can take a while to get back on if there is no other source to feed the affected areas. Can also lead to a main breaker in the sub tripping out.

Or an underground splice could have let go, transformer biting the dust. Many different things that could be causing this.
An OCR will trip 3 times almost instantly before it locks out. cutting off the power, could be smaller faults that aren't enough to trip OCR :)

[Cos]

Originally posted by colinderksen
Heavy wet snow/ice fog build up on the lines and mixed with wind can create line breaks, sleeves in the wire letting go ect. All underground power is fed from overhead lines, so if it is a break on a main circuit it can take a while to get back on if there is no other source to feed the affected areas. Can also lead to a main breaker in the sub tripping out.

Or an underground splice could have let go, transformer biting the dust. Many different things that could be causing this.

plt? With who?

[colinderksen]

Fortis Alberta

[Cos]

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[Unknown303]

Originally posted by colinderksen
Fortis Alberta

Your name seems familiar if it's your user name. I'm an Altalink Operator.

[black_2.5RS]

2x in Aspen Hills. Last one was for 1/2 second or so at around 6:30pm. The one at 12:30am felt pretty long - seemed like 5 or 6 min.