A UPS will also get unstable and noisy if the voltage goes up. appliances and electronics will be unhappy also. get a line meter from radio shack(i am not a part of radio shack).
If the meter is bouncing up, and up a lot, call the power company, and tell they you have lost your neutral. very big, and very dangerous problem. keep punching buttons at power company till you get a human. they should have people out within a couple of hours. the way AC works is it is pushed on one wire and pulled on the other. each run between +/-110 and ground. if the neutral goes, that is one of the two wires, and the circuit is run between one of the power wires, and the ground(water pipe) it is not a great conductor, so the +110 push can get up to 2-300 volts. it kills electrics, and it kills people. yes, we lost ours. I got through at 7pm. pepco showed up at 9 pm with a crew of 6-10, 2 backhoes, etc.etc. they stayed for 3 days, destroyed the front lawn and driveway. they pay for all killed equipment. >Any help / advice / would be appreciated. > >Mical Wilmoth Carton >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
