My electrical service was my single biggest expense last year -- And it's still not fixed. Don't get me wrong -- Everything from the drop in has been changed -- The lines to and from the meters, the phase the room is on, breakers, wiring - I even had new outlets put in just so I could tell Com Ed that I've done everything I can.
Now, I'm running motorized VariAC's into "pure balanced power" conditioners just to keep things from exploding.
Last night I had a voltage alarm going on and on and on -- 133V. The old power supply shuts down at 130, so I wasn't getting much done (even though the new one will hold better). The VariAC was seeing the wrong voltage for some reason (it said it was reading 112) so of course, it stepped the output up 8V (to 141V).
Been bugging them for years. My electrician (a rather qualified guy I might add) is completely in the dark (no pun intended) on what's happening around here. That VariAC works fine 20 miles from here. It reads a different voltage (vs. the actual "Fluke" voltage) just about everywhere I take it around here (and I've taken it around, believe me - Documenting what I'm reading, what it's reading, the difference by volts, my own findings of relative input vs. output voltage of the VariAC unit -- Everything).
ComEd can go [SELF-CENSORED] themselves at this point as far as I'm concerned.
Sorry -- What were we talking about again?