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Default Electrical Humming/ Buzzing

On 14 Mar 2007 10:35:50 -0700, "buffalobill"
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On Mar 14, 7:39 am, "fixcar" wrote:
I have a 18 year old home with circuit breakers. For the past 2
months I have noticed an intermittent electrical noise that come
through all my electronics and appliances at the same time... the
TVsbuzz and have lines through the picture, Stereo and computer
speakers buzz, my fridge even buzzes during these episodes. They last
approximately 5 or 10 minutes. I have only witnessed it about 8
times. The times they happen vary from daytime to night. I called
the power company and they replaced all of the connections from my
meter to across the street to the pole. It happened again last
night.
My electrician is on vacation until Monday and I am worried that my
house will burn down in the meantime...I am also hesitant to call
another electrician taht I don't know, becuase I am worried that I may
be taken for a bundle....
Has anyone run into this before? Do you have any suggestions on what
to look at?
Thank you in advance for your assistance,
Cheryl


ask electrician to install new arc fault stuff, provides more
protection, info at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc-fau...uit_interupter


If this would make any change at all, it shouldn't be done until the
noise is found. If you do it now, the breaker will trip everytime the
noise starts and they'll never find it. And how do you know which
breaker?

But frankly I don't think this noise or its cause will cause any
breaker to trip.