So, my house has electricity problem for about half a year now. No, I’m not kidding.
The circuit breaker keeps turning off, though none of the fuse popped out. Which is pretty much normal, seeing as the fuses are rated 6A or more. This causes the central breaker to overload before any of the fuses.
You might think that it is a small problem. To show you how bad this situation is for me, try imagining a one-minute power outage. Done? Now imagine it happens six times daily. Good, now you understand.
Well, to be honest, I have a clear idea of what’s actually happening, and so do my electrical-engineer uncle. An air conditioner unit is broken. When we checked the power consumption, it reads 5A all by itself. Which means it is drawing 1100 Watt of electricity. We told this to the owner, with no further action. We eventually grew tired and decided to wait until the air conditioner unit is either totally broken or catches fire. Hopefully not the latter.
That might be too light a reason to stop the pressure. That is true, but when they say that my computer is drawing huge power, I just stopped caring.
Now, these outages is effecting me very badly, as I work with my computer a lot. And as you already know, power outages and computer using is really not the best combination.
I actually bought a UPS and used it for a while.
One day, when the power goes off, I realized that I didn’t hear my UPS beeping. so I ran upstairs to find it dead while trying to protect my PC. Okay, only the battery is dead. Now that heroic UPS is stored in a cupboard, waiting for me to get a new battery for it.
You see now, the outages are bad and often enough to kill a UPS. Imagine what will happen to my PC in the long run.
I really must buy some low-amperage fuses soon enough.
