On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 07:03:29 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 13:26:41 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message

Do you have a lightning arrestor at your breaker box?

I haven't changed the house wiring, but I unplug a lot of things
when
I hear distant thunder or radar shows an approaching storm front. We
rarely get isolated pop-up thunderstorms.

OK.


Lightning hit the pole in front of the house once, scaring the $#!+
out of the neighbor working near it. The only damage was to the old
carbon arrestor in the phone network interface box. The electric
meter
and its box and drop are fairly new so I assume they are up to spec.

You assume with the people who gave us the Home Irradiator
electronic
meters and Time of Use fees? Um, OK. Not so much, here.

They can read it from the street but it isn't a networked Smart Meter.
https://www.altestore.com/static/dat...ta%20Sheet.pdf

After I returned from a CA trip to see family last March, I found that
I wasn't sleeping normally. A couple days later, when I turned on
the faucet for the front watering, I noticed a brand new natural gas
regulator and electronic meter on the side of my house. After
learning that it had a city-wide range, I built an L-shaped frame and
tacked metal screen over it, then fastened it to the meter piping and
brounded it to the gas pipe ground wire. It shields the house from
the meter. Normal sleep resumed that night. Until then, I had been
unsure of the concern over electric meter safety, but the shielded gas
meter (much less powerful than the electronic meters from the electric
utility companies) proved to me that they can and do affect human
bodies in an unhealthy manner.

What cued me that something was hinky with the meter/reg replacement
is that the girl told me that the batteries in the meters were due for
replacement, yet the company spent (hundreds?) considerably more money
on a new meter, new regulator, new valve, plus several hours labor
rather than changing the battery.

--
Stoop and you'll be stepped on;
stand tall and you'll be shot at.
-- Carlos A. Urbizo