Electricity bills

Hi A,

What happens when you breach the limit of your potencia is the whole lot goes off. It's like a blown fuse, except all the switches show ON. What you have to do then is turn everything off, and turn off the mains switch. and wait a minute or so, then turn on minus the offending gadget that pushed you over the limit.  It's a nuisance more than anything, if it happens at night it can be especially annoying. your bills are a factor of the standing charge, and grow related to the increase in potencia you have contracted.
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Thanks for that.  Good to know.  I guess if it blows too often then we can just up the package.

On the alarms, I have a lot of experience with home automation.  I have someone keeping an eye on the place in the short term.  Once I can get out there, it'll all be rigged up to a computer with multiple cams, a UPS for a lot of it and a couple of cameras with battery backup.  The plan is to have at least one cam on a mobile connection so that even if a really determined person gets in and kills the internet and power, I'll still have something working.  I'm building all that at the moment so I should be able to cart it all out there and fit it in an afternoon.  That might sound like overkill for a little house in a small town in the mountains but I do this stuff for fun as much as anything

That's exactly what happens. The trip switch goes in the box and you just need to turn something off and then reset.

There is quite a lot of elasticity in the "potencia". We have the 3.4kw too and it seems to be able to cope with at least double before it pops any of the circuit breakers.