[Boatanchors] OT: Whole-house bucking/regulation

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I have a cheap plug-in AC voltmeter from an RV store 
that I keep plugged into a kitchen duplex outlet. I 
have adjusted it to be spot on at 125 Volts. I also 
monitor it daily during the summer and notify power 
company when it goes over 128 or below about 107 
during the summer with the highly fluctuating demands 
of air conditioning. I always verify with my Fluke 77 
DMM before making that call. Power company has usually 
responded and corrected things within 24 hours. 
 
Some 15 years ago, I complained about a noise problem
that I had a bearing on with an HF beam. It took a week 
or maybe two, but they sent out a team an located it as 
being in a specific house several hundred yards away. I 
never got around to getting up the nerve to approach the 
neighbor (unknown) and eventually the device causing 
the problem must have failed as the noise disappeared. 
 
The power company (here in Oklahoma, anyway) IS 
responsible for damages caused by overvoltage, which 
also includes surges caused by company equipment, but 
NOT that which is caused by natural events.
 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* k2gkk at hotmail.com * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF, Ret (61-81) * 
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> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:19:53 -0500
> From: wa3bzt at verizon.net
> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com
> CC: wb2vsj at earthlink.net; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] OT: Whole-house bucking/regulation
> 
> Down here in Delaware I just put a meter across the 240 and read the 
> numbers then I call the power company Conective and they send out a 
> electric man who reads the voltage at the meter if high he calls the 
> control group to locate the correct capacitor bank and switch them. As 
> for RFI interference they have a group that runs a spectrum analyzer out 
> of there truck and they will locate them including the RFI from someones 
> home. They were bit several years ago from the FCC over a Ham and a 
> customer /radio listener and the station.
> I have never had to get a license electrician to file any papers.
> Ed
> WA3BZT