Brownout: The Strangest Power Outage I Have Ever Dealt With + LIRR Work Convoy

[@nukepuke932]

Drinking game: Take a drink every time he says "partial power, but not full power".

[@ZT_1234]

Say goodbye to partial sobriety but not fully sober

[@mattcatalano7215]

Best thing to do in that situation is that just turned the circuit breakers off to everything to avoid damage from the low voltage

[@WhitfieldProductionsTV]

had to do that while living in rural utah, damn squrls and racoons physically got into the substation and dropped a phase and transformer both times, half the house had power, the other half did not... so just killed every breaker in the box and waited until I heard ac units from people around me kick on lol.

[@amalbanik2675]

I live in Hollis. Fire alarm went off, my house blacked out, but I still had electricity?? How?! 95% of my power was working?! It wasn’t funny! Hollis and Mineola are a DISGRACE!

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

My power constant lighty flickering! Always at 7pm or 7am! I notice the whole town is doing it! Some lights flicker lighty! Some barely noticeable! The basement you can really tell and it's the 1st breaker! I had a power outage on July 18th and before it did it and still doing! It was a equipment failure! I guess it was never fixed!

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

And I live in a townhouse It's getting colder out! It's not The AC units! I live up north! It's not a brownout!

[@5Dale65]

In Europe where we only use three phase medium-to-low voltage transformers that feed entire villages, if a phase drops out in the distribution medium voltage line, a phase drops out on the low voltage side as well. So if you have three phase power supply you just lose one phase. However if your house is supplied with only one phase (which is more common) and that one phase drops out then you're blacked out while some of your neighbours still have power ☺ In US as I learned you have those little round transformers on the poles and those are two phase transformers (only two high voltage wires feed them) unlike ours. In this case, if one high voltage phase drops out, such madness like in the video can supposedly happen. If a tra-fo is normally fed with two wires with like 14kV phase to phase voltage, and suddenly one phase drops out and go to the potential of the ground basically, then the tra-fo now sees just a phase to ground voltage (which can be 7kV or less). This gets transformed to the low voltage side of course, and instead of 120V AC you get half of that or less. I suppose this is what was happening on the video.

[@MIW_Renegade]

Close, in the US/Canada we have single phase and 3-phase, what you described as “2 phase” is actually single phase. The transformer is fed by 1 phase and neutral, and the output is 240v with a centre tap at 120v. As far as I know, there is no “2 phase” just single phase and 3-phase, hope this clears up a little bit

[@VEGTheAgingHippie]

Oh man, you have my sympathy. This heat is brutal. Seems like American infrastructure is falling apart.

[@kevintheenthusiast6095]

Yeah with fully electric cars it will get worse!

[@Warp2090]

@@kevintheenthusiast6095 Exactly

[@dekelly7726]

We had one of the weirdest power outages today where Irvington flea market lost power and then we had emergency lights but lost them and then it took a while for generator to reboot but then we only had enough power to power the lights and sounds but AC and some outlets didn’t work because a enough electricity was not generated to power those

[@chronically.advocating]

As tempting as it is on a hot night don't run your AC on such low voltage you'll end up burning up the compressor. When voltage drops that low the grid unit tries to make up for it by boosting the amperage. This overheats and burns out the compressor. GFCI outlets are meant to trip at low voltage like that as it sees it the same as a short or even a loose neutral. Unplug all unnecessary items to protect them from over amperage during voltage sags like that.

[@thiscorrosion900]

My rental house dates 1927, ancient outlets and one is dead, still I haven’t had any power issues yet. I’m astonished but Syosset near LIRR seems solid for power somehow.

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

Yet I back watching 5 months later! I have a question did it effect the stove?

[@PinePowerLI]

I don't know

[@treystewart544]

⁠​⁠@@PinePowerLIthat looks terrible when those lights are out with no electricity lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thiscorrosion900]

What the hell? Tell them to Asplundh my b-tt!! So aggravating. Convoy also creating tons of noise at 1am etc.

[@kevintheenthusiast6095]

That is strange and rare. What I would do If the voltage is very low turn off refrigerator, air conditioner and electronics to avoid damage until voltage is good enough to run them. These brownouts is a prime example of why fully electric cars is a terrible idea! The grid won’t be able to handle electric cars being charged especially when there is a heat wave! Charging EVs take more power than a 5 ton (60,000btu) central air conditioner.

[@thiscorrosion900]

Fully solar cars would be a lot better if they were viable.

[@davenanjaba6030]

Pls don't trip on your Gatorade on the floor

[@bradycallahan3369]

I had a brown out in rvc when the inferno tanker when on fire

[@mikejohnson3873]

Wish you had a meter to show us the voltage of everything.

[@MrPlaystation3system]

I use surge protectior

[@num1hendrickfan]

Rockville Center has its own power plant, not backup power.

[@drivecfl]

May be a building issue. Look for Lilco trucks. I mean PSEG.

[@michellewright7760]

Your outlets are flashing red

[@bradycallahan3369]

But Rockville center has verry good power beacuse they have there own power station I think

[@edengarrison5979]

Unless he has strange power outage called "browout"

[@elihernandez330]

Were you still able to charge devices like phones, power banks, a laptop, and still run the wifi router on low power at least.

[@rtur1smit833]

Are the beaches closed also?and think about it miss kathy HHcull still gets paid

[@PierceSen22]

Brown outs are freaky

[@NOTISL]

that was undervoltage situation ,,, maybe to much stress on grid but dont let things run with that voltage .. they will get destroyed

[@rtur1smit833]

Pay or sweat

[@boydalexander4652]

Not good

[@NYA1994.]

And yet LIPA aka Lie-pa is still around

[@PinePowerLI]

Yup and will be back in full control in 2025 unless we stop it

[@teddonk3850]

You have low voltage

[@DogeDelecto]

:)

[@broyofroyo1207]

Do you live in a house

[@PinePowerLI]

No a bldg

[@broyofroyo1207]

@@PinePowerLI okay