Kevin Bismark
02-18-2005 16:52:40
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Re: Power surge? in reply to RustyFarmall, 02-18-2005 08:18:27
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Well, I am an electrician and I am now home from work, so maybe I should stop right here, but I wonder do you have any blinking lights in your house, did these lights blink once in a while, or did anything else act strange?? If it"s not cheep bulbs I would have to agree that you may have a loose neutral connection some place, and it may not even be in your house, had a church a while ago that had some expensive sound equipment that burned up, and when I came over there to look at the parking lot lights I took my hot gloves with me and decided to check the power company connections at the secondary of the transformer as long as I was there and found a loose neutral, if you don"t find anything in your house call the power company and have them check their connections and never get close to them by the time you realize you made a mistake you would be dead or close to it, I don"t like dealing with 600 volts to 13,800 volts but you get used to it, sort of, in large industrial buildings we have the 13,800 volts brought right into the electrical room and then drop it to 480 volts or 4,160 volts or something else to run across the plant to other electrical rooms, don"t hesitate to call the power company to check things out, It is fairly common to find a bad connection on the utility side of things at least it is here with the wide change in temps that we have in Minnesota, just remember to never do anything stupid...
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