1happykamper Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Im hoping to get more of a handle of my electrical problem before PEA arrives.. Today? 55. Fingers crossed. My issue started one week ago.. Lights began flickering and aircon compressor noise changed pitch and struggled. Then the flickering went to full on and off mode. I turned the main circuit breaker switch to OFF Next morning... Breakers back on... No issues. Non of my neighbors had issues... So it appeared it was just my problem. Last night... again.. Night time... The issue returned. Exact same events. I worked up early.. 5 am... Turned the breaker to ON... and went outside to check out the pole with my meter and 3 more.. Yikes.... My meter... Was zapping a lot... Which coincided with the flashing light show inside my home. I called PEA. They will be here within 34 hours 5555 555.... However... All is normal again now... Aircon is on as an experiment and zero issues. I have a UPS that supplies power to some electronics... and the UPS is happy My question...why would the shorting sound at the meter and flickering only occur at night.. Sure.. Higher humidity... But it's not that much a difference.. The temperature.. In the sun... is very different. Some lose connection would do this? A lizard fried there would have been done with a week ago... Any additional thoughts? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novacova Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Definitely a short somewhere in the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Crossy Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 5 minutes ago, novacova said: Definitely a short somewhere in the line. More likely a loose connection at the meter (fizzing and flickering is a dead giveaway), PEA will have a screwdriver As to why only at night, who really knows, cooler temperatures maybe. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2baht Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 9 minutes ago, 1happykamper said: Yikes.... My meter... Was zapping a lot... You know you're in trouble when your meter starts zapping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I had a sizzling problem years ago, somewhere in a corner of my apartment. At the end we found out that the compressor of the AC was "the problem". Compressor changed, problem solved. Please don't ask me to explain technically why it was sizzling and where. Fact is, after the new compressor the problem was permanently solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Crossy Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 13 minutes ago, 2baht said: You know you're in trouble when your meter starts zapping! 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2baht Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 4 minutes ago, Crossy said: That's sizzled! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pdavies99 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 1/12/2024 at 11:30 AM, Crossy said: More likely a loose connection at the meter (fizzing and flickering is a dead giveaway), PEA will have a screwdriver As to why only at night, who really knows, cooler temperatures maybe. Quite right, the connections have overheated being loose and now are working overtime, easy fix for PEA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 1/12/2024 at 11:52 AM, 2baht said: That's sizzled! BBQed gecko for dinner!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 1/12/2024 at 11:52 AM, 2baht said: That's sizzled! Nicely bypassed though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1FinickyOne Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Ghost sure. Put out a glass of water, some bananas and light some incense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR3 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 We had some problems latter half of last year. Voltage dropping erratically 100~225v then back to normal, every time it happened the inverter reset on low input and it was going on some days every 3 or 4 minutes so didn't do much generation. Anyways it quietened down for a few weeks so I suspected it was just poor power management by our supplier at the time. In the end house went black and it was the only one on the street in that scenario. I thought either the meter or under road cabling until I got the detector out and realised we just had no power to the meter. They responded quickly (about 7 hours). Turned out there was a loose connection in the local junction box on their side just outside the moo baan. Tightened the connection and has been perfect ever since. When I think about it .....had been going on for quite some time, I guess it was arcing and welding the cable in place again. Lol. Had me confused and still don't quite understand how only we were affected. It's white man's magic that electrical stuff. Lol. Back to my beer. Best PR3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 On 1/12/2024 at 11:22 AM, 1happykamper said: Im hoping to get more of a handle of my electrical problem before PEA arrives.. Today? 55. Fingers crossed. My issue started one week ago.. Lights began flickering and aircon compressor noise changed pitch and struggled. Then the flickering went to full on and off mode. I turned the main circuit breaker switch to OFF Next morning... Breakers back on... No issues. Non of my neighbors had issues... So it appeared it was just my problem. Last night... again.. Night time... The issue returned. Exact same events. I worked up early.. 5 am... Turned the breaker to ON... and went outside to check out the pole with my meter and 3 more.. Yikes.... My meter... Was zapping a lot... Which coincided with the flashing light show inside my home. I called PEA. They will be here within 34 hours 5555 555.... However... All is normal again now... Aircon is on as an experiment and zero issues. I have a UPS that supplies power to some electronics... and the UPS is happy My question...why would the shorting sound at the meter and flickering only occur at night.. Sure.. Higher humidity... But it's not that much a difference.. The temperature.. In the sun... is very different. Some lose connection would do this? A lizard fried there would have been done with a week ago... Any additional thoughts? Cheers Brownout perhaps? Low voltage at night because of higher loads on local transformer? Use a meter to measure voltage at an outlet when the issue occurs. Just a thought. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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