> At night I can watch the lights > slowly dim and brighten. If they measured the voltage at the end of the line and compensated by raising and lowering it coming from the generators then folks close by would see a variation like that. But I get the impression the power companies don't ever do it this way. Enough people have responded with suggestions about a bad neutral connection that I guess I'd check into that. A dead giveaway for this problem is if the "other half" of your circuits show the opposite voltage variation corresponding to what you're seeing now. Barry -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics