Had something like that when I built my first Altair, it kept dumping
programs during the night.

We were almost the last house on a rural Missouri REA operation.

Called them, you got a what in your house??

They believed me, as I had worked with them getting power to a new hospital
x-ray system i was installing at a local hospital.

Turned out to be an autotransformer up stream that had blown the power
resistor that carries the load during the switching from one tap to another.
These things were regulating 13KV AC

With the blown bypass resistor the downstream voltage just dropped out when
the mechanical switch stepped.

Power company did not like to work on these regulators because of the
voltage and need for a stepped load to test them.

The reason it occurred at night was the daytime load was dropping after
supper till midnight and the voltage started to rise so the autotransformer
started stepping. Same thing happens in the morning in reverse.

Hugh



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Kohls" <kkohls@PRODIGY.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Whole house electricity cleaner?


> Brandon,
>
> Make certain that the neutral between your utility pole and the house
hasn't
> come loose.  This happened to me several years ago.
>
> Kelly Kohls, N5TLE
> Dallas, TX
> http://www.qsl.net/n5tle/
> There's never enough time to do it right, but plenty of time to do it
over.
>
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