check voltage at socket. Turn hair dryer on. Check voltage again. See if the
run voltage is much lower than no load. Four or five volts is expected.

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possible.

Have you checked your line voltage?

Long runs, undersized wiring, overloaded transformers, a wealth of
things can contribuite to this.

check line voltage at different times of day, middle of the nite may
see higher voltage.

if you have heard of brownouts? thats basically a lower line voltage