Fessing up. I failed!
Power outage started about noon while I was at work. ETA for repair is late into the night,
So driving home I smugly planned to dig out the camping stove and divert the inverter to the meat freezer and central heating.
No biggy
Now. The garage door is a virtually impregnable electric one. So I can't get to anything solar. Gas stove is in the garage, as is generator, entire solar power system and even the rocket stove.
No problem. Garage side door is a eurolock......
But some idiot has left a key in on the inside. So garage is hermetically sealed!
Expletive expletive expletive.
We went out for food, but it's an epic fail. The only upside is that the car is not in the garage, so at least I can charge the phone and power up internet.
Pepper fail during power outage
Pepper fail during power outage
Graceful Degradation! Prepping's objective summed up in two words. Turning Disaster into Mild Inconvenience by the power of fore-thought
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
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Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Shouldn't laugh must not laugh
Least you know now and can prevent it happening again
We have abus euro locks and one of the selling points is they work with a key in the other side
https://www.fvsupplies.co.uk/store/ABUS ... p133377169
Hope you enjoyed your meal out
Least you know now and can prevent it happening again
We have abus euro locks and one of the selling points is they work with a key in the other side
https://www.fvsupplies.co.uk/store/ABUS ... p133377169
Hope you enjoyed your meal out
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Oh and Jenny
And Lidl have head torches in for £2.99
And Lidl have head torches in for £2.99
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Please do laugh at me and beat me up about this. Unforgivable.Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:48 pm Shouldn't laugh must not laugh
Least you know now and can prevent it happening again
We have abus euro locks and one of the selling points is they work with a key in the other side
https://www.fvsupplies.co.uk/store/ABUS ... p133377169
Hope you enjoyed your meal out
We have unsnappable quality Eurolocks, but they won't work with the key inside..... At least that's why I believe we are locked out.
And I can't prevent it happening again until the power returns. I'm to their mercy and in limbo and gagging for a cup of tea. If WW3 strikes now, we're up the creek. So much is in the garage. It's only luck that the car with USB-C charging is out of the garage. I'm found wanting on USB-C charging facilities.
Could bug elsewhere, as we did in dining out, but that's plan C
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Re: Pepper fail during power outage
jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:28 pmPlease do laugh at me and beat me up about this. Unforgivable.Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:48 pm Shouldn't laugh must not laugh
Least you know now and can prevent it happening again
We have abus euro locks and one of the selling points is they work with a key in the other side
https://www.fvsupplies.co.uk/store/ABUS ... p133377169
Hope you enjoyed your meal out
We have unsnappable quality Eurolocks, but they won't work with the key inside..... At least that's why I believe we are locked out.
And I can't prevent it happening again until the power returns. I'm to their mercy and in limbo and gagging for a cup of tea. If WW3 strikes now, we're up the creek. So much is in the garage. It's only luck that the car with USB-C charging is out of the garage. I'm found wanting on USB-C charging facilities.
Could bug elsewhere, as we did in dining out, but that's plan C
Any manual over ride for the roller shutter?
Time to start thinking of a aux power input for the garage to power the place from the outside to get the shutter up
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Oh and I can take the Micky I've got 3 sets of keys for my shed and usually have to search high and low for a set
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Ouch, Jenny, that's quite something - I really hope you managed to get a cup of tea soon, that's tough
Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Presumably not the sort of lock/door you can jiggle until the key falls out the other side. What a nightmare!
Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Not a fail,
1. a learning experience for you.
2. a teaching experience for us.
a win win for everyone all at a cost of a missing cuppa and a takeaway.
1. a learning experience for you.
2. a teaching experience for us.
a win win for everyone all at a cost of a missing cuppa and a takeaway.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Re: Pepper fail during power outage
Wonder if Jenny is back on yet just had a lovely hot cup of tea
Last time we had a big power cut the shock that the takeaway /s wasn't answering the phone or accepting just eat orders was just funny
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine