Thread: Cyclone Alfred

Originally Posted by BradC

Now we are reliant on the all singing and dancing nbn for land line comms, we're ****ed.

. Guess they ran out of beer coasters.

If it were my mum and I had radio silence, I'd be more thinking about the total lack of redundancy in our comms systems

Faced this very dilemma with my mum. Bedridden and 100. Up here it’s fires that are the problem, and usually the very first thing that goes out is the power. No power, no NBN, and thus no landline ever though you have to pay extra to get it. Also, no power, not mobile service. So radio silence is de rigueur . Funny, the old copper pair seemed to survive well past the time to run away, and never needed a he power.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

...... No power meant no landline, and despite being in sight of the phone tower, no mobile most of the time.

For this sort of reason I think most low voltage overhead cables should go underground or at the very least be replaced with ABC's.....Aerial bundled cables (also aerial bundled conductors or simply ABC) are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together.....Aerial bundled cable - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by BradC

I suppose on the flip side, in the old days the pits all flooded, so we're probably not worse off. Just feels that way.

Geez, didn't the 'Joe Blakes' like the old pits!

Originally Posted by Saitch;[URL="tel:3243421"

3243421[/URL]]Geez, didn't the 'Joe Blakes' like the old pits!

Prolly still do.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

For this sort of reason I think most low voltage overhead cables should go underground or at the very least be replaced with ABC's.....Aerial bundled cables (also aerial bundled conductors or simply ABC) are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together.....Aerial bundled cable - Wikipedia

Their subdivision is all underground, but they still lost power. And I'm not sure that ABC instead of separate wires fares any better when a 15m eucalypt is blown across it. And I suspect that in this case the damaged power lines were probably not the low voltage ones.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Their subdivision is all underground, but they still lost power. And I'm not sure that ABC instead of separate wires fares any better when a 15m eucalypt is blown across it. And I suspect that in this case the damaged power lines were probably not the low voltage ones.

ABC's are made for medium voltages as well, so the common distribution voltages found in suburbs such as 11 20.5 and 22 thousand volts.A lot of outages are due to , bats, birds, possums and branches brushing against lines in wind, the insulation of ABC's prevents a detrimental result for power supply and the broader flora and fauna if they cause a bushfire. Small trees or branches falling or resting on the lines are enough to take them out of service without taking them down.