Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:23 am
Is your neighborhood older houses with older electric service, or one of the newer developments? I'm wondering if your entire neighborhood is starved for power, if maybe the transformer feeding your house (and likely a couple of your neighbors) is too small now, or...
If so, that could/would cause the sags - also, ask your electrical guy if ANY of the HVAC motors, fans, etc, are "soft start" - this is almost always done with SCR's, and it's the same as putting dimmers on your studio lights
It'd be good if you have a way of checking the line voltage at the wall - best would be a recorder (expensive, unless you can talk the power company into putting one on for a week) - otherwise, you'd need a meter - make a log and check the power a couple dozen times a day and write it down (the voltage, that is) - best if you have exactly the same stuff turned on for each reading, so you know if it's outside the house where the sags are coming from.
As far as I know, there isn't any "magic wand" for finding out what's going on in these cases - just a lot of checks, with the info being run through a mind that's done it before
HTH... Steve
If so, that could/would cause the sags - also, ask your electrical guy if ANY of the HVAC motors, fans, etc, are "soft start" - this is almost always done with SCR's, and it's the same as putting dimmers on your studio lights
It'd be good if you have a way of checking the line voltage at the wall - best would be a recorder (expensive, unless you can talk the power company into putting one on for a week) - otherwise, you'd need a meter - make a log and check the power a couple dozen times a day and write it down (the voltage, that is) - best if you have exactly the same stuff turned on for each reading, so you know if it's outside the house where the sags are coming from.
As far as I know, there isn't any "magic wand" for finding out what's going on in these cases - just a lot of checks, with the info being run through a mind that's done it before
HTH... Steve