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Be on the lookout for power outages this weekend
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Be on the lookout for power outages this weekend


May 9, 2024, 5:02 PM
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Remember when Starlink satellites were destroyed by a solar storm?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/solar-storm-knocks-40-spacex-satellites-out-of-orbit-180979566/

And the internet outages last December? Also Solar storm.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2071381/2023-global-network-outage-report-and-internet-health-check.html


We worse is headed this way this weekend. I suggest preparation akin to a hurricane.

https://youtu.be/g8tMmg6jHak?si=tWbBJ7hOW3t0qfcl

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Re: Be on the lookout for power outages this weekend


May 9, 2024, 5:06 PM
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Well, good thing my HVAC compressor went down yesterday. The repair dude can't make it here until Tuesday. Maybe I wouldn't have had AC anyway.

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Re: Be on the lookout for power outages this weekend


May 9, 2024, 7:02 PM
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Most of the time it's the capacitor on A/C. They're like 12 bucks and just plug a few wires into them. You're friendly A/C repairman will charge like 75 bucks plus labor for an easy repair for them.

https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ac-capacitor-replacement/9ba683603be9fa5395fab901ca03363f

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Trying to go cut rate with a "friendly neighborhood A/C repairman" ( a coworker


May 9, 2024, 7:10 PM
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who was actually on our industrial HVAC crew) cost me a whole new unit a few years back. Why? He was faced with two black wires to hook back up at the end of installing a new fan, and said, "it doesn't matter which goes where, they are both grounds." What he did caused my compressor to run full time 24/7 until it burned up. It turned out being more economical (from a REAL A/C company) to replace the whole outside unit than to replace that hidden compressor way down inside the coil. (Money was close to a wash, but new unit had a five year full replacement warranty, vs only a year or two on just the compressor replacement.)

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