Posted on 07/09/2022 1:57:25 PM PDT by ransomnote
I don’t know if you follow Rick Beato on Youtube, but he put out an interesting video about a week ago chronicling Steely Dan’s evolution. Interesting.
PF DSOTM and Sgt Peppers were also picked for the UHQR collection, those sell for around $1000 or so mint and sealed.
I have a salesman’s sample of DSOTM supposedly the earliest pressings but its been thru a few hands
Seentit
I don’t know what to think regarding the rumors of Dems arresting Trump in October. I know they would like to. But their hand is weak.
I was always interested in listening to music, not collecting it and never opening the package.
I really don’t collect anything...Rust Never Sleeps, ya know.
Lot’s going on today, lot’s to read and digest. But this is a nice topic of a slide and as like Alan Parsons Project, Steely Dan and Yes for that matter. (All similar structured band, couple of founding members and the rest is a whos who fantastic musicians.) I also into albums/vinyl. All over the board, but mostly pre 1968 Miles Davis. Never was a Van Morrison fan, but recently picked up an original pressing of Moon Dance. Sublime.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
847 backwards is 7/12
Trump The White
Thank you, I am ignorant about this topic.
It isn’t normal to have such frequent momentary outages. Usually, this is the result of an upstream breaker tripping. They automatically close back, usually in just a couple of seconds. Absent some trees falling on the line, a storm, or cars repeatedly hitting poles in your area, that shouldn’t be happening.
The partial outages are more interesting. That implies something at the distribution secondary (120/240 volt) level, or even in your own wiring.
Myself, I’d exercise every breaker in the box, including the main. Off, then on. Kind of ensures (hopefully) that the internal contacts are connecting solidly. I’d also record the times of when this happens, and then call OG&E. If you have a smart meter, they may already be seeing the issue, as long as the problem is on their side of the meter.
Do the short outages only take place during normal working hours, or later in the evening as well? Their work shouldn’t be causing this to happen, and especially not more than once when, say, they cut new wires into a new circuit. Most all their work should be done without affecting the customers.
From the list you noted of stuff that blinks off it sounds like you might have a weak “pole.” The power to your house is most likely “two pole,” meaning it’s 120/240 volts. The things that use 120 volts are running off one pole-to-ground. The things that use 240 use both “lines” to add up to 240 volts. Are any of your 240 volt appliance being temperamental?
What you’re describing doesn’t sound like the power company. Does your house have aluminum wires from the pole to the main breaker? These can corrode over time and when one line starts to oxidize then one pole can get “blinky” before it goes off. Is your electric water heater getting as hot as normal? If not, that’s an indicator.
After checking your outside supply lines try switching one of the appliances you noted to the other side of the house. You might need to check some of the voltages at the outlets you are seeing blink off? Figure out which breaker in your distribution panel supplies the things that blink off. Flip it once and note how it acts. Breakers do get tired and sometimes contacts get mungy and do odd things.
If the problem is not local just sue the power company———
UPS power supply for 120V works for that. I don’t think the cheapest ones will work for quick out and back, you need a decent one but they at least were not too expensive, couple hundred bucks. Protects electronics (TV, CPU etc). Provides 120V for an extended time during an outage.
Surge protector relays are not expensive and protect 208V equipment like AC units.
One thing I forgot to mention - tree trimmers in the area. Some do very sloppy work, dropping a branch on live circuits occasionally, causing the station or line circuit breaker to trip, then restore automatically in a couple of seconds. They shouldn’t do this, but it can happen. Again, that would generally cut all your power for a few seconds, not just part of your power.
This is by no means hi-tech insight, but if this is to continue for a while, I'd at least run an extension cord to the computer from the other circuit in the house that stays on. It's pretty annoying to have to re-boot all the time.
Maybe put a battery powered clock in the bedroom.
MARK
Mark
Don’t forget Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
“I am the eye in the sky, looking at you,
I can read your mind....” Lyrics, if I recall..
Also, “ I don’t care, what you do, I wouldn’t want to be like you”.
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