[GreenKeys] E.

[Skip Macaulay]

Hello again Tom.. When we moved to this location around 27 years ago, a
rural location, I used to watch this big panel meter I have in a rack go up
and down..
They did a bunch of line work and that was corrected but it was then I
noticed my 110 side looking closer to 127 volts.. Its stayed
this way and very stable.. Since we talked about this here lately I just
took my DVM and measured my 220 outlets I use for my moonbounce amifiers..
249 vac..
I was talking to a power engineer about this a few days ago and he claims
due to the high demand for power and higher losses from the power
transmission lines,  the source for the power has been increased to
overcome this, maybe, I don't know.. Here in central Alberta close to me we
have a couple of large polyethylene gas plants and they do have
cogenerators that feed back into the utility mains, that could be part of
it also..  As long as it stays on ha ha..  Skip

Skip MacAulay
VE6BGT

On Thu., Feb. 20, 2025, 7:58 p.m. Tom Hunter, <tomhenryhunter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am an old-timer (an Elmer?) I have learned a lot of things in my life
> but I cannot necessarily
> tell you where. In the past year I burned out two heathkit HD 3030s before
> I figured out it
> was high line voltage.
>
> I just measured my line voltage with my trusted ME11 digital voltmeter and
> got 119.6 VAC.
> I got 115.2 VAC out of my bucking transformer.
>
> I cannot find a voltage spec in the HD 3030 manual.
>
> We frequently have our power go out. The last time it was out about 30
> hours (Good thing
> I have a generator for furnace and refrigerator.) I wonder if they have
> connected us differently.
> I know the voltage used to be 124 VAC.
>
>
> Tom  N3CRK
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