On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:22:50 GMT, "Fpbear II"
wrote:

A few days ago I wrote about the problem with 134V at the outlet. I thought
it might be the ground so I added a couple 8' rods, but that was not it. I
looked up at the power pole, and there I could see the neutral conductor was
completely broken off! I called Southern California Edison and they sent a
guy out within an hour. All fixed by the power company! Shared neutral
outlet pairs now read 118V/123V. The neighbor's bamboo trees sway against
the power wires when it gets windy.



Good info. Typically when I check an outlet that a home owner says is
'weird' it's not unusuall to find that it's a shared neutral, and the
neutral is floating.

Thanks for sharing....

tom @ www.Consolidated-Loans.info