Dirty Hydro?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:35:18PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> 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?

Well not sure, but I would think any power supply that isn't crap would
deal with that just fine.  It is only a 2% fluctuation which should
hardly cause a blip once you reach the capacitors of the voltage
regulator of the system.

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Len Sorensen
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