anyone had any christmas day cooking problems?

[Taylortwocities]

Don't forget this weekend, put the clocks back and start boiling the sprouts for christmas Day!

 

[securespark]

You favour them crunchy, then.

I started boiling my sprouts for this year's dinner on Boxing Day 2015.

They're still like bullets!

As far as the cooker problem on Xmas Day goes, yes. I had to go one year to fix a ruptured 30A 3036.

Maybe it was a bit old and worn out?

 

[M.Faradayski]

Blimey, some old names here.

Hi John, TTC and SS. Hope you are all well?

Whats happened to sheddy?

 

[bernardgreen]

A friend of mine was fixing a new curtain rail in the lounge on Christmas Eve, and drilled through the cable to the cooker. Previous owner was a DIY man who had not heard of save zones. A pair of junction boxes as a temporary fix saved the day.

Years ago my aunt's solid fuel Aga went out Christmas morning and no alternative cooking.

 

[stem]

Sort of......Back in the 1980's when I was at college studying electrical engineering, a friend who still lived with his parents called me for help on Christmas day. They thought there had been a power cut midway through cooking the Christmas dinner, but found out only they were affected by it.

It turned out that they had 2 electric ovens and hob on the go, as well as a TV, most of the lights, a tumble dryer, and someone was using an electric shower. As a result the fuse in the elderly cutout, (60A I seem to remember) had failed.

At the time the EMEB came out and fixed it, but they had a 4 hour wait.

 

[JohnW2]

Blimey, some old names here. Hi John, TTC and SS. Hope you are all well?

Fine, thanks. Good to see you, too, and I trust all is well with you.

Whats happened to sheddy?

He fairly recently 'resigned' because of what he regarded as an irreconcilable difference with admin/mods over a matter of principle (he is a very 'principled' man). Ironically, given the countless occasions on which he probably would have been thrown out of many/most forums (but wasn't thrown out from here), it does actually seem that he was essentially 'in the right' as regards the issue which resulted in his withdrawal.

It's pity, but it's a very different (and, as far as I am personally concerned, 'less stressful') place without him.

Kind Regards (and Merry Christmas!!), John

 

[JohnW2]

It turned out that they had 2 electric ovens and hob on the go, as well as a TV, most of the lights, a tumble dryer, and someone was using an electric shower. As a result the fuse in the elderly cutout, (60A I seem to remember) had failed.

I must say that rather surprises me. Perhaps the cutout fuse, as well as the cutout itself, was 'elderly', and had somehow become a bit 'trigger happy'?

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

Hi SS. Hope you are all well?

Not 100%, but at least the old ticker is still, er, ticking.

 

[crystal ball]

Twas the night before christmas and the phone rang, t'bloody cookers gone off can thee come and fix it, found a JB in the loft right under a drip from a loose slate, must have been like it for yonks but gave up the ghost when the turkey went in

 

[EFLImpudence]

must have been like it for yonks but gave up the ghost when the turkey went in

Nothing likes Christmas. Something horrible always happens at Christmas.

Perhaps because everyone is cooking the voltage goes way down.
Anyone measured it?

Apparently it's a Hummbug. Bah.

 

[JohnW2]

Perhaps because everyone is cooking the voltage goes way down. Anyone measured it?

Yes, I did two or three years ago (and, I think, reported it here), and it wasn't appreciably lower than normal - if I recall correctly, not under 240V (my normal is 240-245V).

Kind Regards, John

 

[John D v2.0]

I thought it was the mostly frequency that dropped when too many people were cooking, not as much the voltage? But there's some rule that you are due a certain number if cycles over a day so they have to catch up later. Maybe if everyone on your street was cooking the voltage would drop a bit, but that would be more localised.

 

[JohnW2]

I thought it was the mostly frequency that dropped when too many people were cooking, not as much the voltage? But there's some rule that you are due a certain number if cycles over a day so they have to catch up later.

Yes, that's also my understanding, as far as the generation is concerned. However, reduced voltage as experienced by consumers due to high demand is likely to be primarily due to VD in the transformed LV feed to their premises (and some VD in the HV supply network), even if the voltage generated and supplied to to the network is little reduced.

Kind Regards, John