liquipure Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 Been about an hour already without power. On Calle independencia in thevillage. Anybody else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 15 minutes ago, liquipure said: Been about an hour already without power. On Calle independencia in thevillage. Anybody else? Corner with independencua 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostlylost Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 call CFE the number is 071 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 Still out but evidently another 1-2 hours. Evidently a Coke truck took out 4 lines on Ocampo yesterday. Large area out including street lights. Did call CFE. Gotta love them. Friend pounded on door this a.m.and took phones home to charge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Solar Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 CFE challenges especially in Ajiijc centro appear to be getting worse each year due to increased loads / demand on the aging grid which seems to be really struggling. Clients are reporting a lot of low voltage situations, outages, and spikes. Demand is increasing for backup systems (whole house or portable / plug-in type AKA "solar generator") and also for whole house stabilization / regulation, especially with the rainy season ahead. The good news......all of this is available and has improved greatly in cost and capability. One local customer had a CFE issue for 5 or 6 weeks, and their whole home ran fully "offgrid" the whole time on their new solar grid-tied hybrid backup system we installed with a lithium-ion powerwall battery of 10 kWh capacity. Was a great "test" of the capacity and automation of the system......even if it was unplanned. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 I live in upper Ajijic where we seem to have fewer electrical outages than in Ajijic central. When it does go out, my solar backup system is a Godsend. All I can say, is go solar. Get yourself a solar panel system and if it makes sense, a power backup system, with solar the primary source when the sun is out but perhaps a battery backup electrical source, if that is practical for outages when there is little or no sun available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostlylost Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 3 hours ago, johanson said: I live in upper Ajijic where we seem to have fewer electrical outages than in Ajijic central. When it does go out, my solar backup system is a Godsend. All I can say, is go solar. Get yourself a solar panel system and if it makes sense, a power backup system, with solar the primary source when the sun is out but perhaps a battery backup electrical source, if that is practical for outages when there is little or no sun available. Pete a solar system will not work if the grid is down unless it has a properly installed battery backup to disconnect the system from the grid in the event of power loss. The invertor stops producing when it senses no power from the grid. If it still sent power to the grid a lineman could be electrocuted while working on a presumed dead power line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 Sorry. All I know is that when the CFE power goes out, I have a backup system that gets its power from my batteries and if the sun is out I assume also my solar panels. And you are correct extra power can not be sent into the dead CFE wiring in front of my house. Doing so could be very dangerous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Solar Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 36 minutes ago, Mostlylost said: Pete a solar system will not work if the grid is down unless it has a properly installed battery backup to disconnect the system from the grid in the event of power loss. The invertor stops producing when it senses no power from the grid. If it still sent power to the grid a lineman could be electrocuted while working on a presumed dead power line. This is correct for a "standard" grid-tied inverter based system, while backup power systems or full hybrid systems are set up to only feed to the loads of the house, and / or not to export to the grid during an outage. There's a few different ways to do this depending on the equipment used, and which things are defined as the loads to be backed up, typically called "the essential loads".....this can be the whole house, or any portion of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Solar Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 6 hours ago, Ellie said: Still out but evidently another 1-2 hours. Evidently a Coke truck took out 4 lines on Ocampo yesterday. Large area out including street lights. Did call CFE. Gotta love them. Friend pounded on door this a.m.and took phones home to charge Any updates & good news to report on the power? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 Came back at 2 p.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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