Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Just wanted to bump this thread and thank people for the advice again.
My lights have been flickering quite a bit tonight and my Panamax's voltage regulation light has been going on and off while I've been watching my projector tonight.
Anytime, I hoped I helped a bit.
Sounds like you still have 20 unidentified breaker boxes in your basement. :frown:
When I moved here, I made sure the power company and the contractor hooked me up properly, and even spent a lot more and had them bury my power supply line running to my house. The biggest problem I have here is intermittant line noise from people using power tools and air compressors next door. If it wasn't for a decent power conditioner, I would almost be afraid to use my PCs, LCD TVs or my HTs. Without the conditioners, you can see and hear the line noise. I think if the neighbors were hooked into another power line transformer, this problem would be a lot less. But I'm also hooked directly into the same transformer.
And on a side note, I had an older friend tell me one day how nearly every electrical item in his house was burning up randomly, including brand new bulbs burning out, and it was costing him a fortune to replace these items, like most of his appliances and heating and air conditioning. He said he even had his circuit breaker box burn up a few times. I asked him what type of power transformer and outside wiring he used, and he said it was a buried cable and he had one of those giant green transformers on the ground on his property next to his house. I told him to call the power company and have them check the transformer box, and even watch them working on it, and take pictures if they replaced any parts inside it. And to use those pictures to file a claim against the power company for a faulty transformer, because it sure sounded like it was. But those ground transformers they use are at least 3 or 4 times more powerful than the pole mounted varieties, and they power 3 or 4 times as many houses, too.
And he said he had litterally spent over 25k replacing electrical items since he moved into this new home in 5 years time. Dunno what happened after that, I hadn't spoke to him again about it. But I bet the power company had sticker shock when he filed that claim against them.
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