Did you ever fix that?
House woes
- Thread starter RoyB
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Did you ever fix that?
What specifically?
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
FWIW, I was playing with my 43B in the detached garage. Common POCO meter but separate feed from house.
I noticed the voltage would change bout .3 of a volt as I cycled a small load on the other leg. That can be enough to affect some LEDs.
(Reduced 1/0 1/0 2 al. No neutral issue, just reduced in size.)
I noticed the voltage would change bout .3 of a volt as I cycled a small load on the other leg. That can be enough to affect some LEDs.
(Reduced 1/0 1/0 2 al. No neutral issue, just reduced in size.)
I am not smart enough to know if it would affect it. I still think they cleaned something up on their end. They ran "the beast" as stated, but more importantly, they put the monitoring device on the meter for several weeks. That's when they noticed the dip on their end.
It's just an illusion. Same stud on the right of this picture.
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- Wisconsin
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- PE (Retired) - Power Systems
This is what is rarely done, but it is extremely important. It needs to capture the event.
Simply doing a voltmeter check is what many POCO people do, particularly during the middle of the day when usage is low.
POCO will almost never tell you they 'fixed' something.
I don't know what they did, but before when I turned the oven on my house voltage dropped like crazy. And you are right about when they checked. They wanted to come over at 10am every time I met them. House is empty. The data logger showed that around 5pm the usage would spike and voltage would plummet. Naturally that's when 4 people were getting home from work. We started the oven, clothes washing started, lights on, showers started, etc.
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
A Church our CFO went to was having power issues during services, they had HiD lighting, so when the power would blip, they would loose lighting. We met with the poco, which naturally denied the issue was on their end, so we told them we were putting a power monitor on the service, and they said they would put one on the transformer. Before we pulled the metering equipment a couple weeks later, the maintenance guy said there was a flurry of power company trucks running up and down the road the week after we met with the engineers. Mysteriously the problem never resurfaced!
Classic bad neutral.
I'd still replace that middle neural splice the generator installer left you,
I dont like copper in direct contact with aluminum, probably old 1350 alloy Al at that.
for that situation I like these:
That sure looked like broken stud, but yeah just the lighting.
I'd still replace that middle neural splice the generator installer left you,
I dont like copper in direct contact with aluminum, probably old 1350 alloy Al at that.
for that situation I like these: