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RE: New power company transformer

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Posted by fxbill on November 12, 2008 at 17:45:22

In Reply to: RE: New power company transformer posted by KLS on October 13, 2008 at 13:23:51:

Perhaps the "tap" he meant was how far down the line from the transformer he was located and it does make a difference. I dicovered only by accident that my house line voltage was a mere 105 volts and sometime even lagged lower from that. I only discovered it because one of my AR preamps cuts off at a preset voltage for protection and I noticed that while listening to my system several times a day it would simply cut out and go dead on me. That's when I started taking measurememnts. It turns out the transformer was also being used to supply another street in the neighborhood that had a bad one which hadn't been replaced yet. The fellows from DWP who came out were exceptional and also discovered that the boost caps by the transformer were also bad and blew the fuses everytime they were engaged. In any case a new transformer was installed and they were kind enough to install it 2 doors away from my house instead of at the end of the street...over a dozen houses away. My line voltage immediately increased to 117 and yet at the end of the street my neighbor was at 112.....5 volts difference simply by being at the end of the line. Perhaps that's the "tap" that was being referred to in which case it does indeed make a difference as was also verified by my DWP installers.

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