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Hi,

I have no experience of this sort of thing, so excuse the naivety of my
question... In the course of the last few days, our house has
experienced at least six electrical items failing. This includes a
network router and a set of speakers, both of which stopped working
sometime during Sunday night. Countless other devices have failed since
then, including a Sky+ satellite box, an electric fly catcher, a wall
heater... I know all this could just be bad luck and we're seeing a
pattern where there isn't one, but could there be anything that could
have caused these apparently unrelated faults? We use surge protectors
to protect our computers, yet the speakers and network router failed at
some point in the middle of the night.

Again, apologies if this sounds naive but I'd like to know if I'm just
being paranoid before I call an engineer in to chase these ghosts...
:-)

TIA,

Jerry.

Do you by any chance live in a village with old overhead PMR mains supply
? Just a thought as a friend of mine suffered a virtually identical
problem to this, which ultimately turned out to be an intermittent
neutral connection, as someone else has suggested, back at the pole
mounted transformer. This was apparently resulting in the mains
intermittently shooting up to phase-phase voltage of 440v. I'm not
sufficiently au fait with how power distribution networks work, to tell
you exactly how this occurs, but when the electricity board came out and
sorted this problem, the multiple equipment failures stopped.

My first impression was to ask how the weather had been the last week or
two; but since he's in England...no need.
G

jak
Arfa

Oh Jak ! That's below the belt ! For the last couple of weeks, the weather
here has been glorious ... d;~}


You mean the sky was a lighter shade of gray? g

Actually, I have experienced some very nice weather in Blighty...one
afternoon.

jak

Arfa