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Im having problems charging my electronics at night and at w/e?

has anybody else noticed when charging mobiles / tablets/ laptops with high speed and ordinary chargers and cables that work perfectly during the day, have in the last month become unable to charge anything. it is only during night and at weekends that the problem happens, my equipment works perfectly and recharges without problem during the day. Am i experiencing brown out where the voltage is reduced slightly so electric things still work but not efficiently and rechargable batteries really do NOT like different voltages to recharge.I found in the past, my camera does not work with any old rechargable battery it needs to be a specific voltage to work the circuit board.does anybody know why this is happening There are a lot of electric cars around here now, upgrade to power supplies is patchy.

 i know national grid is upgrading around the country is this a result of it?

when we were out in the carrabean, they had brownouts in the afternoons as the old generator couldnt produce enough power for the demands of the islanders.

there doesnt seem to be any way to contact National grid to enquire, only to report blackout.s

Any info would be great to hear.

 

As was mentioned last time 

unless your neighbours have a similar problem, it’s unlikely to be caused by the local network.


National Grid have a duty to maintain supply between limits. These are wider than they were now being 230v (-6% +10%). This is delivered regionally via your DNO.

Modern power supplies usually work with a wide range of inputs from near 100v. 
You should check your adapters for the electronics first of all. 
If you believe that your voltage is outside the prescribed limits then you should contact your DNO who can be found here although they probably need more than a hunch that there is a problem to actually investigate.

What sort of an electricity meter do you have? Modern smart meters measure the line voltage all the time (so they can work out how much energy you’re using), and they also include an alarm system that will send an alert to the network operator if the voltage falls outside of its prescribed limits. 

I agree with BPLightlog that it’s not likely to be low line voltage that’s causing the problems you’re seeing.

Does this help answer your question ​@grannyanny?

hi, reply to 1st person - i went to the site DNO and the only way to contact would probably be by phone. i need to get some evidence as well. My thoughts are possibly all the electric cars that have appeared, doing home charging. Our area had dedicated supply put in for the robin hood airport which didn’t affect us at all, then more put in for the college which was built.  But we have had a lot of house building in all the fields around us and our services(definetly water, sewage,and fibre BB) have been steadily deteriorating. i know they have not upgraded properly for all the houses.

No I have an old meter and have NO desire to change to a smart one.

thnk you for your replies they were helpful. the electronic devices work/recharge perfectly with the same charging boxes/wires/plugs when its not the “brownout” times i mentioned. so unless they vary in performance through the day…..

 

You seem to have adopted all sorts of high tech (“mobiles / tablets/ laptops with high speed and ordinary chargers and cables”), yet you have “NO desire to change to a smart meter]”.  Would you like to tell us why (especially since a mart meter might give you the answer to your question ...)? 

It is also worth noting that a Smart Meter may well be your only way of proving to the DNO that there are brownouts or voltage drops in the area. No other meter type is capable of flagging them up.

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