https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/18/electrical-outages-cost-ice-customers-3-8-million-over-course-of-two-years/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/18/electrical-outages-cost-ice-customers-3-8-million-over-course-of-two-years/#comment-4219 Daniela Rosaura Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:25:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7679#comment-4219 The actual damages to computers, other sensitive electronic devices and everything with a compressor — A/C, refri, freezer — are thousands of times more than that. If one could see the electrical grid as we can see the streets, roads, and highways, it would reveal something even worse than the streets. There are areas here that are receiving less than 100 volts in peak hours. When an appliance doesn’t receive the voltage for which it was designed, the result is rapid overheating. Costa Rica is definitely NOT a place for a business selling electric clocks that run off house current rather than batteries.

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