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From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
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Subject: Re: Line Voltage
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Date: Mon, 26-May-86 10:30:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 26 10:30:52 1986
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Reply-To: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Organization: VLSI Group, Univeristy of Waterloo
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Summary: 

Snoopy mentioned that his line voltage is a bit too high (125v).

This voltage seems okay to me, but we had a problem with low voltage at
our home some time ago (not a brown-out).  My father measured the
voltage at 107 - 100 v through the supper hour and complained to the
utilities.  They were slow to act but eventually they grudgingly placed
a chart-recorder on our line.  After seeing the problem they replaced
our neighbourhood distribution transformer with a big auto-regulating
beast.  Unfortunately the voltage stayed low and we had to call the
utility again.  They were even slower to act, but after the
line-monitoring and subsequent checking they found that the
auto-regulating transformer had welded itself stuck on its lowest tap
voltage.

Through this we had hoped that our neighbours had also complained but
most didn't realize there was a problem.  They had noticed that their
bulbs were dim (replaced them with higher wattages) and their T.V.
picture was too small (called the T.V. repairman) but they didn't make
the connection.  As a result the utility often told us that we were the
only ones who were noticing a problem ... the implication being that
there was no problem.

	Kevin
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Kevin Szabo'  ihnp4!watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo  (VLSI Group,U of Waterloo,Ont,Can)