[La lamy]

I got woken up in the middle of the night with the feeling that the noise was a power outage coming back on in my villa. When I got up found the oven and coffee maker clocks flashing showing they had lost power, but the microwave was fine. Checked the electrical panel, all was fine. Has that ever happened to you? I can't figure out what could have happened.

[New Englander]

I think it could be the power fluctuated a tiny bit and those two appliances are very sensitive to power fluctuations.
Up north I've had the same thing happen.

[villagetinker]

I agree with above, probably a very short interruption.

[La lamy]

Interesting. Never had just a couple outlets be affected before. Thanks for the input.

[Decadeofdave]

Originally Posted by La lamy

Interesting. Never had just a couple outlets be affected before. Thanks for the input.

Sensitive GFI on some outlets

[davem4616]

you may want to look into having a surge protector put on the meter by whomever supplies your electricity...it's not the end all solution, but it does help with the minor 'surges'

we had one on our home in Ft Lauderdale and had one installed when we moved to TV

now when one clock starts blinking, they're all blinking LOL

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by davem4616

you may want to look into having a surge protector put on the meter by whomever supplies your electricity...it's not the end all solution, but it does help with the minor 'surges'

we had one on our home in Ft Lauderdale and had one installed when we moved to TV

now when one clock starts blinking, they're all blinking LOL

Now that would seem normal! Thanks for the comment

[nick demis]

Originally Posted by La lamy

Interesting. Never had just a couple outlets be affected before. Thanks for the input.

It wasn't the outlets, it was the sensitivity of certain appliance to minor fluctuations. A longer outage would have affected all the appliances.

[airdale2]

Originally Posted by La lamy

I got woken up in the middle of the night with the feeling that the noise was a power outage coming back on in my villa. When I got up found the oven and coffee maker clocks flashing showing they had lost power, but the microwave was fine. Checked the electrical panel, all was fine. Has that ever happened to you? I can't figure out what could have happened.

Power companies switching power supplies.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by nick demis

It wasn't the outlets, it was the sensitivity of certain appliance to minor fluctuations. A longer outage would have affected all the appliances.

nick has the CORRECT ANSWER. Some appliances allow a short drop in service and still maintains the clock and settings.

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[Neils]

Ghosts????

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by Neils

Ghosts????

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by nick demis

It wasn't the outlets, it was the sensitivity of certain appliance to minor fluctuations. A longer outage would have affected all the appliances.

Thanks Nick, I prefer your assessment to the "ghosts" one!

[eeroger]

Originally Posted by La lamy

I got woken up in the middle of the night with the feeling that the noise was a power outage coming back on in my villa. When I got up found the oven and coffee maker clocks flashing showing they had lost power, but the microwave was fine. Checked the electrical panel, all was fine. Has that ever happened to you? I can't figure out what could have happened.

My village has these power surges all the time! SECO calls them "Blinks."

[davephan]

One way you can fix this problem, is to buy a small UPS for the power sensitive device. Years ago before I retired, when I was working, I used an alarm clock radio CD to wake up. It was a nice clock radio CD, but had no battery backup, and was sensitive to short power outages. So, I plugged the clock radio CD onto a small UPS unit, and that permanently fixed the problem.

Having a few UPS units around the house will prevent power sensitive things from having problems. That will cover the small electrical outages, before your whole house electric generator automatically starts. If you don’t have a whole house electric generator, then the UPS will keep the device working from about 20 minutes to many hours, depending on the capacity of the UPS and the load of the device.