Extended loss of grid power, what will happen to my central heating with loss of Wi-Fi?

[ebee]

Lack of planning and cohesion is rife.
I think with Johns set up it would be a joy for any decent electrician to study and understand, I would have a great confidence in what I was about to walk into before I even walked thru the door.
Would not surprise me if he had a few miniature steam operated actuators as back up in his CH?HW valves.

Seriously though we have all this remarkable modern technology and no thought of easy make do back ups, just like the supermarket not being able to weigh and price my slices of bacon, no set of stamped scales and calibrated weights and someone who knows how to use a calculator (or a slide rule) and a pencil and paper, bloody cost them a whole weekend of lost sales directly, many more indirectly and made them a laughing stock.

Its not really a laughing matter though.
It is bordering on tragic.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Seriously though we have all this remarkable modern technology and no thought of easy make do back ups, just like the supermarket not being able to weigh and price my slices of bacon, no set of stamped scales and calibrated weights and someone who knows how to use a calculator (or a slide rule) and a pencil and paper, bloody cost them a whole weekend of lost sales directly, many more indirectly and made them a laughing stock.

Plenty of accidental/unplanned backup here. We have the BBQ, plenty of gas; a small bottle gas ring; gas oven and hob, needing no power; caravan, with plenty of gas for heating and hot water parked in the drive, with plenty of battery. For comms, I have 2m and 70cms, able to contact most of Yorkshire. Fridge and freezer usually full, but no back-up power for either.

 

[JohnW2]

I think with Johns set up it would be a joy for any decent electrician to study and understand, I would have a great confidence in what I was about to walk into before I even walked thru the door.

That might be true for a 'decent electrician' if he/she were prepared to undertake the "studying and understanding" as an interesting (but unpaid) academic exercise/challenge - but I don't think one could reasonably expect a customer to be prepared to pay the electrician's 'usual hourly rate' for the (possibly considerable!) amount of time involved in that exercise!

Kind Regards, John

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

That might be true for a 'decent electrician' if he/she were prepared to undertake the "studying and understanding" as an interesting (but unpaid) academic exercise/challenge - but I don't think one could reasonably expect a customer to be prepared to pay the electrician's 'usual hourly rate' for the (possibly considerable!) amount of time involved in that exercise!

I think is probably true of many homes, occupied by anyone with a leaning towards any involved skills. Even I sometimes get completely lost, in some of the things I designed and setup, and maybe built, just a few years ago. That, despite my best efforts to document things.

 

[JohnW2]

I think is probably true of many homes, occupied by anyone with a leaning towards any involved skills. Even I sometimes get completely lost, in some of the things I designed and setup, and maybe built, just a few years ago. That, despite my best efforts to document things.

Exactly the same here and, as you imply, by no means just electrical things. It is when, like you, I find myself 'getting lost' with things I did a long time ago that I realise that my well-intentioned documentation is not quite as good as I thjough it was (and how good it should be)

 

[bernardgreen]

Exactly the same here

Me too,

 

[ebee]

OK I`ll admit it. Me too sometimes

 

[ericmark]

Exactly the same here and, as you imply, by no means just electrical things. It is when, like you, I find myself 'getting lost' with things I did a long time ago that I realise that my well-intentioned documentation is not quite as good as I thjough it was (and how good it should be)

I thought it was just me. I look at some old designs, and can't remember what I used to find so easy. Maybe I just imagined the numbers?

It was all down to my complaint about cupboards in the hall, and the wife changing things around, so they were thinner, to allow for me getting fatter, and having to move the telephone socket, so the cupboard could go into the corner.

The supply for the router, hub, and wireless phones is an extension lead, and it seemed prudent to change this, but to what? Hence, looking at UPS etc. However, if with a power cut we loose phones anyway, it seems pointless.

Anyway, the next project is more urgent, so that project is now moved down the list.