New Kuwaiti power saving system - UPDATED

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Contacted the landlord when this all happened (or at least tried to he is out of the country), got his wife by way of an old contact for the property.

She came, spoke to me, called the MoE and insisted that an engineer come out immediately and that she would wait at the house until they did come.

Whilst I had some doubt about it being an outside fault I let her continue.

The engineers arrived, checked the outside power supply and then left to go to the local sub-station. Only 90 minutes later the power came back on all over the house, turns out it was a fuse at the sub-station that had blown.

To say that I am blown away by how fast this was completed is an understatement, and in Ramadan as well.

Major brownie points to be awarded to the landlord's wife for this one.

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As a side point to this it does mean that this apartment has more than one mains power source coming into it, all going through the same distribution board and circuit breaker, this brings up the question of "why" and I for one cannot come up with a sensible answer...!

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Here's a new one for you.

We had a very brief power cut earlier this morning, you know the kind that go off and come back on almost immediately.

"Wow" we thought "that was close, it could have been one of the longer shutdowns that we seem to have avoided this year".

Hmmm, spoke too soon, we then began to notice bits of electrical equipment that had not come back on, most importantly the air-conditioning, nor the TV or satellite receivers. Seems that we've lost power to certain parts of the house and not others.

I guess that the brief power cut blew some of the circuits in the main distribution board.

Let's see how long this one takes to fix, especially with it being Ramadan...!