Electrical spike

[ernieekberg@...>]

Bill, on my daughters property are 2 lite poles with their own meter. I am
plugged into the pole that is separate from their home. All this was installed
last summer, as the house and where I am located were updated to new equipment.
His electrical feed comes way across the Yellowstone through a bunch of trees.
Perhaps I was on the "receiving " end of this spike. I didn't like that old tv
anyway~
Ernie Ekberg
83PT40
Livingston,Montana
----- Original Message -----
From: Wilhelmus Schreurs
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Electrical spike


Gosh, sorry to hear of your bad luck Ernie.
This electrical spike that you "received", could very well have been a poorly
wired receptacle. I am assuming,(this could be wrong LOL), that you are plugged
into your son-in-law's house power.
They could have experienced the problem in their house by your cable melting.
Did they lose anything in their home?
What probably had happened during the burning period, is that the neutral let
go, thus allowing the neutral to float, anything that was turned on would have
got the spike, which, depending upon how much resistance (load) was on one leg
versus the other leg, the voltage would have gone up accordingly.
I was called to look at a mobile home a number of years back, and typically
the same thing had happened, it too was a 50 amp power cord.

For an electrical spike to do damage to electrical equipment is rare,
electronic equipment is a different story.
Also when I mention an electrical spike, this is instantaeous, in your case,
it happened over a short period of time, maybe as short as a minute.

Bill 84FC35SB

Ernest Ekberg wrote:
I have read through various other forums of individuals experiencing
this. I just went through this yesterday.
After leaving the coach around 7 am, I arrived back around 1 pm to no
electricity. I checked the breakers, called my son inlaw to see if
they had power- he said all is well. He said, also, that the lights in
his house acted weird for a short period of time.
Looked at the outside breaker box- 50 amp tripped. Discovered my bus
power cord melted. Looks like someone just cut the male plug end off
and just left an exposed wire hanging there.
Found out, that all 120 volt/12 volt transformers- tv antenna booster,
maglite charger, my main tv- smells burnt electrical, and many more
have been fried.
Of course, with full coverage insurance- nothing is covered. why do we
have that stuff in the beginning??
Looks like I'm in the market for some surge protection. FYI
Ernie-83PT40 in Montana- thank heavens my computer is ok, and my girls
are too.

Bill 84 FC 35 SB "$quanderlodge"
Terrace, B.C. Canada


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