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Mr. Luddite

On 1/20/2014 11:30 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:22:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I am talking about power that remains on but the voltage droops to
levels that cause excessive current to be drawn when something like an
air conditioning compressor starts. I saw the normal 120 vac drop to as
low as 105 vac in Florida, which means the primary service of 240 volts
that the AC units run on was drooping to about 210 volts. That's damn
close to the +/- 15 percent most appliances will tolerate.

That has never really been a problem in Ft Myers, even when I was in
the computer biz and really watched that stuff.
I still have a Dranitz 626 (disturbance recorder) I can hook up if I
suspect a problem but my Weston 901 is hooked up all the time. I see
123-124 all the time.

I've forgotten who the power company was we had in Jupiter but the
voltage was all over the place. Scary because we were only there for
the winter months when demand was probably less.

At one time we had an RV that I had parked in the yard and had run power
to. I had to get a buck/boast autotransformer for it to make sure the
voltage remained high enough to easily start the AC unit when needed.