Re: electrical question: can anyone explain this?

Defective Electricity. Definately defective. Complain to your
electric company and tell them you are not going to pay your electric
bill until they correct it. It's probably recycled power you are
getting. It's already been used once and you are just getting the
left over, used power.

However, before you complain too loudly, be sure your wiring is not
worn out. It could be old wiring where the copper has simply run out
of electrons. You could even have some clogs in the wires. Get a can
of "Wireno" (wire drano), and thoroughly flush out your wires.

And the last possibility are the houses where they wanted to save
money, so they used the HOT water pipes for the HOT LINE VOLTAGE, used
the COLD water pipes for the NEUTRAL, and used the GAS pipes for the
GROUND. You could have a bad dielectric union, so all the power is
leaking into the hot water heater and is heating water instead of
going to the outlets. If your water is too hot, this is an indicator
of this condition. Also note if the gas coming out of the burners in
your stove is hot before it is ignited, you have an electrical leak to
ground.

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On 18 Feb 2006 07:10:32 -0800, "jlatenight" <jlatenight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My wife SWEARS that her hair dryer gets hotter when she uses it at
other people's houses. I seem to think that our George Forman grill
doesn't get as hot as I've seen in others' houses. Is this a
perception thing, or is there something with the power in our house
that would cause appliaces with heating elements to not get as hot as
other places? Is it something with the ol' W = V x A equasion? Could
there not be enough Amps to create enough Wattage to properly power
these types of devices that require a lot of Wattage?? Help!! Thanks
so much to all who respond!!

.

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