UPS/Protection a must!!

[canuck_22]

Got up this morning and the UPS fan for the stove is running, that's odd I say to myself, the display panel on the UPS shows 132VAC. I check plugs here and there, same thing. So I call Hydro One and they feel it's abnormal, the very max should not exceed 127VAC. Within 2 hours they show up, check my voltage at the meter, confirmed, too high, check the neighbours and the same thing. They drove off to the sub-station and discovered a faulty regulator, the people closest to the sub were at 140VAC They manually dialed down the max to 125 and the regulator will get swaped out this week. I may just have saved the day for some with TVs and other electronics. Thinking afterwards, what puzzles me a bit is that dont they have an alert system that could have signaled the problem?

 

[Bioburner]

They do have an alert system, YOU. I complained about power interruptions for almost three years till one day I was walking the pasture fence and seen several trees with scorched limbs. Took a couple pictures and brought them in. Two days latter the trees are trimmed and power been great coming almost a year instead of the almost daily glitch. The limbs were thirty feet from where they had been inspecting the transformer, power socket meter etc.

 

[gfreek]

Agree, you are the alert system. had an issue a few years ago with a power surge, National Grid denied it, I showed them the inside of my meter was black, my neighbors meter exploded on the pole, long story short they paid for replacing my appliances and other electronics..