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Survival Guide - Digital Dumpsters
It seems that more and more of the pakeha/palangi, and quite a few of the Tongans are enjoying more electronic toys such as MP3 players, digital cameras etc.
One warning, if your lights flicker at night, or barely stay on when you have new bulbs/tubes then I suggest you borrow a volt-meter or find someone who knows how to use it and have your electrical line tested.
It's taken me two years of burned out electrical items to finally test the line to find that there isn't enough juice coming out of my power sockets and some of my equipment can't deal with it on a 24/7 continual basis and burn themselves out. After going through 3 cordless phones, 2 laptop power packs as well as a whole heap of computer power supplies at the store, I can suggest that this just might save you some money as well as a lot of anxiety/frustration.
As an example, my power socket averages 150 ~ 175 volts on a line that is supposed to be 220V or 230V. I occassionally get that 230V but if they can keep it up at 200V or 210V I would feel a lot safer about my equipment, but alas some things are out of our control.
In summary, to save yourself from the ignorance of killing your electrical toys by plugging them in the wall socket, get them tested out.
Better for you to take an early nap, turn that laptop off, than to turn the laptop on 3 months later to find it isn't working anymore.
Warning: of course my above claims are all conjesture since I don't have any equipment to verify that the continual brown-outs/lows in electrical current is the cause of my electrical problems. But I know the coachroaches weren't at fault here.
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