This happened today and it happened once last week too.
Electricity went out for a second.
Br br usually happens so quick my computer shuts off and turns back on its own.
More odd the power company says there is no record it even happened.
Br i have a friend that has an old youtube channel and we have tried for years to get it taken down because there are 2 embarrassing videos of her on it.
Then they came back on.
There s little chance that.
Usually happens so quick my computer shuts off and turns back on its own.
It s been the way for a year.
Give it fifteen minutes or so probably just to make sure the power is really back for good and not just sputtering to life.
But about an hour ago the power went out for 5 to 10 minutes.
Just awhile ago my lights and tv went off for about a few seconds.
We have no power in half the house upstairs and down but just the outlets are out not the overhead lights.
If part of your house loses electricity you may not have a serious electrical problem.
In the end it either comes back on and stays on or if the fault cannot be cleared goes off and stays off until the electric utility company can come fix the problem manually.
Okay so over the past week we ve been getting random split second power outages in my house once or twice a day.
But my tv and lights shut down then turned on again.
Your house s electrical system uses several parallel circuits to distribute electricity separately to various parts of the house.
To report a power outage call toronto hydro electric system s lights out at 416 542 8000.
The usual observed effect of automatic recloser operation is that your power goes out between one and three times for somewhere around 3 6 seconds each time.
The whole time i thought it was toronto hydro doing work or something.
Unplug and reattach your keyboard and mouse as well.
I didn t know what videos they were referring to and theyi m thinking about changing to youtube tv.
In addition to the other answers it is possible that if the one second outage happens around the same time every day it may be the utility company balancing the load.
What causes this issue.
Power went out for split second then came back on.
One circuit can go out without affecting others.
One day it never came back on.
In my home i noticed today and last week the power in the house would go out for a split second and then come back on again right away.
Our power was out the other day for a short time and after it came on i turned my computer on only to have the power go out again briefly during the boot process which corrupted my filesystem.
Before it went out we would have it go out for a week and then on for a few weeks until the timing got closer and closer together.
Should i call an electrician.
It was more common in the past in factory towns where the utility would s.
You mentioned that if the power went out nuclear power plants would require electricity in order to cool the rods.
