A few days back, the power suddenly went off at night in our house.
Initially, whenever the power went… we faced some dark issues in our building.
Even though we have 2 battery Inverter setup in our house, we didn’t properly set up, or I can say we didn’t properly utilise it.
We missed a few things like any beginner do.
This afternoon, some sound came.
Out of curiosity, I opened my CCTV visuals on my mobile. I noticed someone taking hallow blocks from next to our building construction spot.
I watched who the guy was… it was none other than the neighbour’s house.
They took only two blocks to make some sitting arrangements outside their house.
Interestingly, they have their own hallow block right next to their building. But they didn’t use their blocks…
Yesterday we were not in our house till 10pm… within that time someone took outside blub.
My guess is it’s our tenants.
All our tenants are college students. I guess someone’s bulb might gone, and they took the shortcut to replace it.
At 8 pm, around 8 BESCOM person came to our new building for our Building inspection.
Once your building is complete, when you apply for a Permanent electricity connection, they will do a spot inspection before you get approved.
It didn’t happen in our first building. But it did happen for our second building.
The reason could be…
While building our first building, we learned some lessons the really hard way.
One such lesson is hiring the wrong electrical contractor.
When we hired the wrong electrical contractor, we not only faced issues with electrical work in our building.
But we also faced an issue getting the final permanent connection from the electricity department.
After completing our building work, we waited 2 to 3 months for a permanent connection.
After taking the permanent connection a meter reader came to our new building to take readings.
I was there right next to him.
While he was taking the meter readings, he had to open the meter box and noticed our setup of the meter box.
He said, “Sir, nicely and properly done meter box setup.”
Me “Ya… my dad is an electrical engineer itself”, so it’s his plan.
When you are ready to apply for a temporary connection, your electrical contractor usually asks how many kilowatts you need, or sometimes they even suggest recommended kilowatt that is required for you.
Whatever the case, my suggestion is never to apply below 2 KW.
The reason is…
This happened to us in our second building.
We informed our electrical contractor that we need a temporary connection as we will start the construction work.
Our contractor told let’s wait some more days.
He told us like that to save money for us… because the earthwork takes time, so let’s manage like that as he informed.
He also told me he would manage if anyone from the BESCOM department came.
If you want to know how much it would cost to maintain an inverter for home use.
Here is my experience of owning it.
Currently, we use a Luminous inverter and 2 luminous battery setups in our house.
Inverter cost usually depends on the number of batteries you use.
This happened in our first building.
When it was time to implement the Inverter setup in our first building. Our electrical contractor said this was not included in the contract, so he didn’t do that work.
That was discussed while discussing the contract, but the contractor said not discussed.
So he didn’t do that work.