[LINK] NBN Smart Off Peak Appliances Needed

Peter Bowditch peter at ratbags.com
Wed Aug 15 11:15:16 AEST 2012


Richard said:

> But the "good stuff" in the electricity network probably happens a
> step away from the consumer. How many pole transformers are there in
> Australia? A million, more or less? (happy to accept correction here).
> Nearly all of them will be passed by fibre. That gives you a damn fine
> basis for fine-grained fault-finding and diagnosis.

In the Great Blue Mountains Emergency of July 2011 (and thank you again, 
Richard, for the loan of that generator) our electricity was still off 
after we could see lights in other houses in the street. It took a couple 
of days to find out that there were two things causing us to live in the 
cold and dark. One was whatever cut off the power to the whole suburb. The 
other was a branch that had fallen from a tree in an almost uninhabited 
side street onto a single wire atop a pole, cutting off the phase that was 
supplying our place. One problem was diagnosed using all the technology 
available to the supplier. The second by someone walking around looking at 
poles and wires to see if he could see anything unusual.

I'm all in favour of anything that makes the grain finer.


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