A sonoff POW that enforces a limit is also a good thing to have, if you provide others with backup. Even 250W of backup power is enough to run a few lights, a television, and charge a laptop. That’s what I’ve done in the AirBnB flats at my place. There is one socket with a limited backup supply, specifically so the lights work, the television work, and your guests can charge phones and laptops, but they cannot plug in a hairdryer.
My BIL tried to help a friend with a camp site who wanted to provide something similar, initially by installing a small breaker which 1) is hard to find and 2) as discussed elsewhere on this forum today, your average type-C breaker doesn’t trip fast enough, and after he saw my setup he replicated it over there, also with great success. Even running standard Ewelink too.
I thought that you are the positive one… I was quite content being cynical but following to the positive people… now I’m going through an existential crisis…
I have been watching the regression of Eskom’s security of supply for a good few years now from all the way over in Ireland.
Sort of like a frog watching water getting hotter from outside the pot.
They say the frogs in the pot can’t feel the water getting hotter.
I want to retire back in ZA soon.
I know that going completely off-grid is multiples more expensive than just having solar supplement the grid supply. But extrapolating Eskom’s downward trend to its logical conclusion, I am not going to even bother to plan a system that is supplemented by the grid.
I intend to go straight off-grid from the get-go. I would just get too worked up having to pay for such a service or lack thereof.
I’m a wannabe economist so help me out if you can…
Here in Africa privatisation works well. Take for example mobile phone companies: They have succeeded pretty much all over Africa.
I’m aware that this industry lends itself to competition more than that of a national electrical grid supplier. Having said that I’m aware that the US has a privatised grid. How is this possible given the mandate of what these companies have undertaken?
Maybe someone has access to English versions of reporting similar, as this sums it up quite nicely.
Titbits in here:
Rama said he highly regards anyone who will take the job of Eskom CEO … really, WTF!
The only beneficiaries of this move are the people keeping Rama in charge.
Titbits in here:
Rama says it will take time … a typical Rama strategy, ignore it, and it will go away.
It is clear too that the ANC National meeting is controlling Rama.
Moving Eskom is in favor of Mantahse and Co, the “kingmaker”, like Mal-Emma was the kingmaker for daai Zuma gemors.
If this will take a while to enact, as Rama says, maybe read stalling? Maybe that gives others enough time to stop it … or maybe it is just to get SA used to the idea …
I look at this and I’m joyous.
There is absolutely NO move left for the ANC here with De Ruyter resigning.
And with this all moving to Mantashe, YES!!!
Corruption won’t be stopped, it will probably subtly increase. The grid will get worse and worse, with Mantahse having no one else left to blame, fire, critique … his own people will take him on, like the Unions last year boo-ing him off the stage.
I dont’ know what they do in your valley, but where I live.
We went to stage 6 at 9PM, which meant zone 3 went down at 10PM. We already had a stage-4 slot for midnight anyway, so that turned it into a 4 hour slot.
Then we went to stage 3 at 5AM, so we skipped the 8AM slot.
I don’t count the half hours. They are there to allow some interleaving. The city doesn’t just drop the whole zone in one go. It drops it in smaller blocks, which are interleaved with other blocks coming back at the same time. More stable that way. Reminds me of an old Belinda Carlisle song: The sun comes up in China, the lights go on in Rome! Something like that.
On stage 6 you get 1 x 4-hour and 2 x 2-hour slots. CoCT goes to a lower stage during the day, so you miss two hours somewhere in there, you are down 6 hours instead of 8. Roughly.
While that is a possibility, I think it may be more basic than that. There was enough political interference (on top of the death threats, the spying – which I absolutely believe is real – and the attempt on his life) for a resignation without Ramaphosa having to pressure him into doing it.
Indeed, I also read that and thought: Seriously? Aren’t you acting against your interests by saying, in layman’s terms: I think anyone who takes this job is crazy!?
And again. Where are the Hawks? I really really dislike conspiracy theories, but my goodness… this is either a massive one, …or… it’s massive massive incompetence. Paralysis of the state and all its arms. Still more inclined to side with the latter, but I’m beginning to think it might not be just one conspiracy. I think many criminal groups are conspiring on the one end, and many politicians on the other end are completely neutered. Apparently.
Replying to my own comment here, but this needs expanding.
We all saw the MyBroadband article article about how the stupid Mr. De Ruyter thought a commercial tracker is a spying device. The claim is more than that. They are saying both De Ruyter and forensic investigator George Fivaz is that stupid.
I don’t buy that. I think it is a misinformation campaign. And yes, MyBB is absolutely in on it, inadvertently perhaps, but still.
Edit: Just to be clear. The pictures in the article is of a mass-produced commercial radio device. It has an STM32 processor and a radio transmitter chip typically used for long range RFID. It has no microphone on the board, and not enough processing power to really do much. However… how do we know this is the ACTUAL device that was found in the car? Mmmmh?
