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Sal Ammoniac:
+1 on using bulbs rated for enclosed use. I have four LED bulbs in my porch lights and they've been lit 24/7 since 2010 and none have failed.
Rick Law:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 29, 2021, 05:53:40 pm ---...
I know this happened before, frequent enough for me to remember but I never put much thought to it thinking it may be wind-caused tree branches brushing the power line.  We do have frequent (once a year or so) high-wind caused outages.

I have to pay more attention to such quick-blink from now on.  The in-coming power may be less reliable than I thought.

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Rant, rant...

Speak of the devil ...  high wind today, second outage today already...  The third day this year (with multiple high-wind outage) already, and it is only April!

Hopefully, it did not add more to my repair to-do list as I am not done with what is on it yet.  Last time it blew one of my mirrored drive out and I am still on "reduced mirror" mirroring on a now non-existing drive.

I was working on my C project, today was to be polishing and deploy.  This morning's work is a total lost.  I was just an hour into recover my morning work, and it hit again.  Now I am totally off my track, forgetting which part was recovered and which was not.  Good that I have an SOD (start of day) backup.

I'm going to watch TV and eat something...   I'll have start over today's work after I wait till the wind dies down.

Yeah, my local power is not as reliable as I like to think...
james_s:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 30, 2021, 09:14:31 pm ---Speak of the devil ...  high wind today, second outage today already...  The third day this year (with multiple high-wind outage) already, and it is only April!

Hopefully, it did not add more to my repair to-do list as I am not done with what is on it yet.  Last time it blew one of my mirrored drive out and I am still on "reduced mirror" mirroring on a now non-existing drive.

I was working on my C project, today was to be polishing and deploy.  This morning's work is a total lost.  I was just an hour into recover my morning work, and it hit again.  Now I am totally off my track, forgetting which part was recovered and which was not.  Good that I have an SOD (start of day) backup.

I'm going to watch TV and eat something...   I'll have start over today's work after I wait till the wind dies down.

Yeah, my local power is not as reliable as I like to think...

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Sounds like you need a UPS. Outages are rare here but glitches during windy winter days are not uncommon. I have most of my important stuff on UPS's, along with a couple of the lamps in my living room, it's an easy way of eliminating nuisance restarts of all sorts of equipment.
Rick Law:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 30, 2021, 10:58:16 pm ---...
Sounds like you need a UPS. Outages are rare here but glitches during windy winter days are not uncommon. I have most of my important stuff on UPS's, along with a couple of the lamps in my living room, it's an easy way of eliminating nuisance restarts of all sorts of equipment.

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I used to have one...  As I add additional HDD's to the server, I exceeded the power capability of my old UPS and killed it outright (or may be just the fuse).  Those are some of the things I need to address... eventually.
drussell:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 29, 2021, 05:53:40 pm ---I have to pay more attention to such quick-blink from now on.  The in-coming power may be less reliable than I thought.
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Even if your incoming power is relatively stable, it is rather common for the $0.59 light switch in the wall to make poor contact and make lights flicker, even burning out incandescent bulbs much sooner than "normal".  Anywhere that you have poor lifetime on any sort of bulb, especially if you notice any flicker, consider changing the wall switch for good measure.

That reminds me, I need to change the one in my bathroom, it's been starting to noticeably flicker sometimes (easily verified in this case by wiggling the toggle a bit to see that it's not always making a good connection) and it has burned out a couple bulbs fairly rapidly.  I've just been too lazy to actually change it and yet always try to sort of forcefully turn it on to make sure it connects well.  Which is dumb, because I already have new switches on hand, probably at least a couple 10-packs of them, and I've already wasted more light-bulb-lifetime-dollars than the <$1 switch.   :palm:

I guess I really should change the damn switch.  It would take me 2 minutes...   ::)
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