Power failure typically does not happen unless there is a fault in the circuit. Most of the cases that could cause a Power outage or Power Trip is due to overloading the electrical system.
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The main fault might come from the electrical power supply to the primary supplier. It could be a Power failure, Power Trip in the supply substations. The likelihood of this could be caused by a faulty underground cable which has an incident happen at Tampines cause 44 blocks of flat to have a power failure. Base on assumption of the Power Trip. The cases like this could be caused by animals snake and rodent which attracted by the heat created in the transformers and fuses box. The animal is most likely kill and stuck in the electrical system. As a result, it created an overload. The default of an electrical system is to prevent overload. It is designed to shut down or trip so to protects the rest of the electrical system from fire and threat that do more damages. Therefore the animal body creates a short circuit for the current path. This massive cause amount of current flow that causes the power outage. The investigation is ongoing.
Simple fault finding on power failure could be dangerous
Some of the Power failure reason is stated above. If you still find that resetting the circuit is impossible, please call for Electrician to help you. As the resting of an electrical circuit requires a trained and qualified electrician to check the electrical circuit before a Turn on. To prevent damages like a real case, happen in Singapore an electrical fire could break out.
The REAL CASE happens in Singapore
The occupant experienced a power trip when he switched on all the electrical appliances after returning home. Upon resetting the consumer unit, he went about with his routine but noticed smoke at the second level of the 3-storey terrace house shortly thereafter. Fire damage was severe in the master bedroom. while other parts of the house sustained heat, smoke and water damage. The burn patterns were consistent with that of a fire which originated from a location near the windows, where a computer table used to be. The burned remains of a portable socket outlet were recovered from the determined Area of Fire Origin According to the occupant, this portable socket outlet was brought over from overseas. The cause of the fire was determined to be accidental and of electrical origin at the portable socket outlet.
There are a few Preventive measure kicks in during a power failure. Have you wondered what will happen to the lift during an outage? Most of the building lift have automatic rescue device in the elevators. Its function is to bring the passenger to the next nearest lift landing. The other preventative measure that usually has in place for importance or critical location like places where the Singapore general hospital, Prison, MRT, police station and fire station and public transportation safety are at risk when a power failure occurs. It created additional cost to maintain the emergency back up electrical supply setup know as UPS when power failure happen there are another backup power sources such as standby generators or UPS, which will automatically start up to restore the power.