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How to Control Home Incoming Electrical Power?

03/11/2013 1:56 AM

Some times there are electrical problems occurs in incoming power at home. It burns TV, refrigerator , fan, lights and some home appliances also. I have put ELCB / MCB of 15 Amp at main board to prevent internal short circuit but it can not control incoming power. What can be done?

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Re: How to control home incoming electrical power?

03/11/2013 2:24 AM

Sounds like you need some form of power conditioning.....

that is a pretty broad term though. Could you describe the types of electrical problems and anything you might have noticed about how the appliances fail?

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Re: How to control home incoming electrical power?

03/11/2013 3:27 AM

I describe like this.

Incoming Power is 240 VAC single phase.

Every thing in house working good.

All of a sudden from main line some disturbance is occurs in main transformers where the electric power distributed in area.

It fuses so many houses light, fans , TV and other.

But somewhere in the same distribution not a single appliances even light bulb.

I suspect phase changing or something else as i am not an electrician.

I want my hose to prevent from it.

How to do?

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Re: How to control home incoming electrical power?

03/11/2013 5:00 AM

Neutral is getting disconnected on the pole.

Gajanan Phadte

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Re: How to Control Home Incoming Electrical Power?

03/11/2013 8:45 AM

Have you looked into residential surge suppression devices?

This is one way to protect your equipment/appliances.

This could get costly though.

Depending upon the severity of the surge/spike event, this usually (but not always) takes out the MOV's (metal oxide varistors).

Here is a pretty good read for you.

There are different types of surge suppressors available also. Here is another good read.

As gmphadtw pointed out, you may also have a floating neutral. IMO the most cost effective route would be to check (or have someone with experience do it for you) the integrity of the neutral connection(s).

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Re: How to Control Home Incoming Electrical Power?

03/12/2013 11:52 AM

To get a more clear picture connect(hire) a power analyser after the utility meter and record all parameters(V,I,instantaneous,Hz,Pf,THD,kw,Var,kVA etc) of your supply.

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