Gentlemen,
any of you clever buggers explain to me what occurred today, about 13:00 this afternoon I was enjoying a cup of tea with a magazine in hand when I suddenly noticed how quiet it had become, i.e. no washing machine, central heating etc. Upon investigation I found equipment on, supposedly, but not working so I plugged a power check meter into a socket and found it reading
150, 40, 0, 150, 40, 0 etc no lights worked except the bulbs in the kitchen but very dim the rest are all power savers. I rang the electricity board who said they had just received another call from somebody else in the village so would send an engineer to the substation. At 15:00 it all came back to normal.
I assume it was a phase fault as others were not effected but why the large drop in power ????
Martin P