Re: LampLinc 2000STW - mystery solved

["John" <jonjon.winn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> You are probably experiencing a brownout (a lowering of voltage, perhaps
> just before a full outage) that is affecting the PIC. This is a design
> flaw
> - it has nothing to do with your power being substandard as everyone
> experiences these at one time or another.
>
Hi Dave..
You could be right.  We just moved in last November..New developement, all
underground electric.  We have had terrible occurances of very short power
outages..Like one to two seconds..Also have noticed as you mentioned some
brownouts..Once was very odd..I was standing in the kitchen (open floor
plan) and it even appeared that different areas of the house were dimming at
different levels.(this was non X10 lighting)
I reported it to our electrical coop.  They were unaware that our
subdivision was having any problems so they came out and removed our meter
and installed some sort of a "recorder" and they asked me to email them
every time any outage or brownout happened.  He said part of the problem is
electrical storms cause the substation breakers to trip and switch to
another route..I told him I think the fact it does it so fast is what causes
problems. Electrical stuff doesn't even get a chance to fully turn off..He
compared my readings with the readings at the substation and said they
didn't match so was why they wanted to put the meter/recorder thing on..They
just picked it up late last week so hope they find the problem.  I have
never in my life had such problems with power outages...
Thanks for the heads up on the units..Strange thing tho, it's always the
same five modules..The others seem to maintain their memories.....

John