Nh co-op power outages

[MeredithMan]

...regularly happens to us. I don't buy the excuse of, "it's not us, call an electrician.." It happens to too many people in the town and in my case, my house is only 9 yrs old.

Frankly, it's an annoyance and not even worth a phone call, as the outage is barely a few seconds. If it were days with no well and no septic, that would be a totally different issue.

[Hillcountry]

I was thinking the same thing. Where do these 1-3 second outages come from?
I was going to call and complain but haven’t yet.

[bruinsfan]

I called NHEC and they said that there have been several days with minor interruption the past two weeks because of transmission feeders that are being fixed.

Apparently the feeders belong to Eversource and NHEC buys a portion of their power from Eversource.

That's what they say...

[CL 240 LS]

Just had it happen here in Moultonborough this morning. It goes off and then comes right back on. Clocks flashing through out the house! Cable box reboot. This has been happing a lot. Called coop, asked to talk to engineer, took my number but no callback. Concerned about surge damage to electronics. Had tv and stereo damage last summer. Yes I have surge protectors.

[Hillcountry]

Just happened here too...we should all call to complain!

[IrishEyes]

Originally Posted by CL 240 LS

Just had it happen here in Moultonborough this morning. It goes off and then comes right back on. Clocks flashing through out the house! Cable box reboot. This has been happing a lot. Called coop, asked to talk to engineer, took my number but no callback. Concerned about surge damage to electronics. Had tv and stereo damage last summer. Yes I have surge protectors.

This happened about 3-4 years ago and it damaged a circuit panel on my new refrigerator that had to be replaced. Unfortunately, I do not have whole-house surge protection, but have all electronics and appliances on surge protectors. After all these recent surges, it may be time to replace them. Wonder if I can deduct the cost from my electric bill!!

There is another post about the volume going out on Metrocast. I have been having the same issue, but I have DirectTV! Makes me wonder if these surges and equipment malfunctioning are somehow related.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to call.

[Hivolt]

Originally Posted by Hillcountry

I was thinking the same thing. Where do these 1-3 second outages come from?
I was going to call and complain but haven’t yet.

The short outages come from a piece of equipment called a recloser. If a branch or something that creates a fault falls on the lines it will kick it out, and a couple seconds later the recloser closes back in, in the hopes that the fault cleared itself. In the event it hasn't the recloser will try 3 times to burn the stick or whatever else is on the line off of it.

If you pay attention the next time it happens and it's a big one you'll notice after the third flicker the lights go out permanently.

[Slickcraft]

Originally Posted by Hivolt

The short outages come from a piece of equipment called a recloser. If a branch or something that creates a fault falls on the lines it will kick it out, and a couple seconds later the recloser closes back in, in the hopes that the fault cleared itself. In the event it hasn't the recloser will try 3 times to burn the stick or whatever else is on the line off of it.

If you pay attention the next time it happens and it's a big one you'll notice after the third flicker the lights go out permanently.

In fact we have noticed that in the past, just never thought about it. If just one second out and back on then all is good. But 3 strikes and you are out.

Anyway boys a girls, this is New Hampshire and the power flicks off now and then.