The Offtopic Thread (Archive 1)

[Sushubh]

Yup. The fuckers sold me an outdated model that was no longer on sale officially. Biggest mistake ever.

 

[ghpk]

AC with internal stabilizers can easily get damaged when used with power source below 190 volts or so.
the external and heavier stabilizer is the way to go, reason the Heart is the Transformer, which performs BOOST and BUCK functions
however all those AC sold as "STABILIZER INBUILT" will not have as heavy stabilizer as you can have in a 4 KVA external one.
in my house electricity connection, we have 3 phases, 1 is damaged from POLE and not yet repaired, 2 phases work
out of which i get
Phase 1). mostly between 150-165 volts
Phase 2). 200-210 volts.
Complaints give no result as they say the transformer serving this area is already working over capacity and they have no near plans of splitting the load
and including another one.
wow what a great service...
if LED bulbs are failing and they are branded ones, you certainly have some Electricity problem in the premises.
(oh my god "Heights of OFF TOPIC")

 

[Sushubh]

So LED Bulbs should not fail on simple fluctuations?

 

[ghpk]

NO LED bulb should easily withstand HUGE FLUCTUATIONS.
The voltage and current LED needs is way Lower than whats input, and the circuit between should be able to DIGEST the spikes
so if its not, either there is problem with the circuit design or the power source is heavy distorted.

 

[Sushubh]

ah well. from what i understand there is a ghost living in the power lines of this house.

 

[ghpk]

HMMM, easiest way to identify that ghost is to see does voltage drops for a second, when A.C. Compressor kicks in.
like bulb dimming, cooler slowing, UPS beeping etc etc.
if yes, the pole and ground earths are the places to inspect and fix.

 

[Sushubh]

yeap. happens on a daily basis. the electrician guy that we have to call multiple times every month has been pushing to get the wires replaced in the entire house. but nope. no one in this house is that bothered about the problems. the downtime of the few hours that would be needed to change the wiring is the big concern.

 

[ghpk]

its not hours of downtime, it can be days,
we got it done while home was getting all re-plastered and had old aluminium wires, and was done from meter to every room etc, was like living in
a cave, I had temporary wires till computer room where it was powering the computers needed to support hosting business that time.
leave all the wires as is if they are not sparking.
Ask the guy to check ground earth and pole earth rechecked and fixed.
if needed just run a thing shielded wire from EARTH point near meter to the A.C. which creates the most fluctuation
in a way like we ran inverter wires 10 years back, A single wire running in entire house.
Hopefully this would temporarily fix your problem till you get all re-wired.

 

[Sushubh]

hehe. as i said. i do not get to dictate what goes in the house. the area where i spend 90% of my time is in much better shape compared to the rest of the house. my dad would not even let me change his crt to a led tv. this is how things are :

 

[Navjot Singh]

I guess this discussion needs to be shifted to a separate topic.