Bridget took me over to pick up Karola and bring her back to Moera and our fingers and toes person, Paula Bevan, at Top2Toe where we got our feet seen to. Then on to Weatherman’s in Hastings for lunch and back home via Summerset Palms.
Around 9:00am the power went off, a planned outage by Unison. The generator flipped on and purred away all morning. It was still going when we got back from lunch at around 2:30pm. I called Meridian and checked; yes the grid had gone live just after 12:00pm. I then called our neighbour Janet Scott, yes she had power. So I then called Campbell Watt in Christchurch who talked me through turning the generator on and off. The automatic controller isn’t working in that it turns the generator on when the grid fails but doesn’t react to the grid coming back on. Campbell is to get his local electrician to come and re-tune the controller sensors so it does turn off when the grid becomes live again.
The Mains Switchboard
The Generator Controlled Activation Unit
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