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    brown out

    I am at work and the phone goes, what are you on about Ems , we have a brown out, A WHAT, a brown out Steve, whats one of those Ems , A brown out Steve,
    Ems i dont know what you are on about,
    I had to have a cold shower this morning because we had no power, the brown out cause this she said, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright now i know, the fuse box had tripped, so trying to explain to Ems about going down the cellar and to check the box, well that was fun, it turned out to be a power cut in the whole street , and a few hours later it was all back on,


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    lol very funny its not very often ya get brownouts in the u.k thats for sure .but we have been getting warnings lately that the u.k will start to see powercuts in the coming years.


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    I am at work and the phone goes, what are you on about Ems , we have a brown out, A WHAT, a brown out Steve, whats one of those Ems , A brown out Steve,
    Ems i dont know what you are on about,
    I had to have a cold shower this morning because we had no power, the brown out cause this she said, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright now i know, the fuse box had tripped, so trying to explain to Ems about going down the cellar and to check the box, well that was fun, it turned out to be a power cut in the whole street , and a few hours later it was all back on,


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    The term brown-outs confused me as well; in my line of work a brown-out is a partial black out and a black out is a complete power failure.


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