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the one thing
Just curious about what kind of appliance whould you guys usually ask a customer to turn on if you were on a call and seemed to be getting good voltage,orginally you got the call as a dim lights order.Everyone is different and will ask the customer to turn on a certain appliance,to check voltage,which one or ones worked or work the best for you?....I usually ask for the microwave.
The microwave isn't that high a load. Even a kettle would draw about twice as much as a typical microwave. I'd go for the oven, a heater or the laundry dryer. (or the whole lot)
"Hi, I'm doing a load test on your house and need you to turn on your vibrator madam."
"I beg your pardon?"
"A load test madam. You'll need to get your vibrator and use it so I can ascertain if there's a power issue."
"Oh... Which one?"
"All of them madam. At full power."
Portable defibrillators were first invented to save the lives of linemen. Where's yours?
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Oven is a good load. Some of our Troubleshooters are using asuperbeast or hair dryers to increase load.
Now The vibrator deal. . . . . . . .I wish I'da thought of that when I was shooting trouble. . .Good one Clive, good one.
http://www.arnettindustries.com/pdf/Superbeast.pdf
Here in Fla it's usually the air conditioner.
What I was indicating,is that I wanted to use the microwave to see if things were balancing out,I too know that its not a heavy load.......and I dont really have the nuts to ask a customer to plug in her electric Vib.
Superbeast
with one of these you can put 80 amps on either leg if there is a nuetral problem it will show up with that much imbalanece
Id love to see one and use one,Ive heard alot about them,but to be honest,I havent had too many times when I couldnt find if there was a neutral problem,now a dim lights due to a connection on the hot legs at the early stages is more difficult....you know like the last place you look,taking the lugs off of an overhead transformer,and finding pitted marks on them.Originally Posted by zapped74
with one of these you can put 80 amps on either leg if there is a nuetral problem it will show up with that much imbalanece
Burden of the beast
Burden of the beast is definitely the way to go,no customer contact,just some good old results from this device.You can regulate how much by flipping switches and @ the same time watching your volt/amp meter.
thats true,didnt think about that one,no customer contact,pretty good.
Ummmmmmmmmm Once again we made our beast out of a heating element from a coffeepot and a small fan. when ya turned the element on it put bout 5-7 amps of load on one leg.A built in voltmeter would show a rise or dip in the voltage but ya hadda be careful not to let the element run for long cause it would get sum more kinda hot n burn up.I reckon we musta been the Poor boy trubble finders. Talking with the customers was often a waste of time since they would tell you about every problem they had for like 6 years or they wouldnt know anything about anything and say stuff like "My Dad said I needed to call ."
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