While waiting outside the offices today I noticed a sign saying 200+ day's without an accident, target 365. A smile came across my face as the temptation to change it saying supplied 200 day's of power with 165 day's of power cuts and shortages.

 

Ooh Kay.

 

Hmmm. May one should be happy about the 200 days of power. This is Asia, not Kansas,  after all and things happen. 

Actually I have  experienced fewer power outages here in Bangkok than was my experience in USA.  The only cuts here are the dirty power switches where they throw it off for a few seconds a couple of times a week or local transform fuse replacement which is normally done within an hour.  Not the multi hour outages that we often had in States.

Come and live in the north east. I have heard every excuse under the sun.

It pisses me off that my frozen food defrosts and then refreezes, not healthy.

Having lived in India/Bangladesh/Laos/Guinea/Nigeria/Lebanon/Philippines/China/Japan/Germany for extended periods; and Chiang Mai/Udon/Takhli/Bangkok in Thailand understand the defrosting freezer issues.  Suspect would be tempted to get a small generator just for that problem if living upcountry.  But here in Bangkok power is really quite reliable all things considered.

Ok I'll take your word for it.

small 2500 watt genset NDL-3000NA

Doesn't Honda make some compact gensets that are relatively quiet, for not too much money?

Though, it you really want to protect your frozen food stuff then you'd want an autostart/autotransfer.

 

 

It seems to highly vary dependent on location.

I live in the Isaan sticks and longer power outages have become really rare.

Maybe 3 in a year lasting longer than an hour.

It must be more than a year that there was a full night outage which is really bad especially in hot weather.

 

But indeed more often there are short interruptions of a few seconds.

Annoying when you sit on the computer/internet and some transaction is interrupted.

 

We live in the sticks in Issan, very few problems with electric supply.

We have had only 2 power cuts in well over a year. ( minutes not hours)

Now i rely on electric more than most people, for my electric winches to get me on/off my bed, on/off my mobility scooter. My standby generator has not been used now for more than 2 years.

Deep joy for you all. I also live in Issan. My post was really about the wording on a sign outside the electric company rather than the amount of power dips and outages although when it goes off it really pisses me off.

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

My standby generator has not been used now for more than 2 years.

I hope you run the beast regularly and charge the battery, you want it to start when you DO need it

 

On 16/10/2017 at 3:03 PM, colinneil said:

We live in the sticks in Issan, very few problems with electric supply.

We have had only 2 power cuts in well over a year. ( minutes not hours)

I obviously must have different sticks running to my supply in Issan.

In the past 4 years, we have had 44 power outages, ranging from 5 minutes to 11 hours.

blue sofa, glad I'm not the only one.

30 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I obviously must have different sticks running to my supply in Issan.

In the past 4 years, we have had 44 power outages, ranging from 5 minutes to 11 hours.

Unlucky mate, we are 3ks south of Banphai, and as i have already posted, electric here has been pretty good.

Maybe PEA know i need my winch for on/off my bed and are being good to me.

On 27/10/2017 at 2:09 PM, Paul Laycock1 said:

blue sofa, glad I'm not the only one.

You too?

I don't know where you are, but we've just had another power outage this morning - two-and-a half hours, taking the total up to 45.

 

bluesofa, up in the north east, Loengnoktha to be precise.