Dirty Hydro?

[Scott Elcomb]

Hey all, hope thing's have been good for TLUGgers the last few months.
 Quite a bit's happened on my end, having accumulated several thousand
mail messages while I've been offline.  While I'm going through those,
I'm hoping someone on the list might be able to answer a quick
question...

I've moved back to Hamilton, into an older building.  The system I had
was intermittently hanging, so I started to upgrade.  I've now
replaced everything except the CD-RW drive but this new system is
doing exactly the same thing (albiet much more frequently.)

It's been about 10-15 years since I've done serious electrical or
electronics work and I'm not sure if what I'm seeing constitutes
"dirty hydro."  I picked up a digital multimeter and started checking
the outlets here - the voltages appear to be fluctuating between
118.5V and 120.5V roughly 5-8 times per second in steps of about +/-
0.35V.

Before I go purchase a line conditioner or an isolation transformer,
does anyone onlist have any suggestions or comments?

As always, TIA!
- Scott

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