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what's your voltage at different times of day/night?

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In Reply to: RE: vintage gear operating voltages posted by louie3 on October 03, 2023 at 08:22:39

my power company has pretty lousy regulation of voltage at the wall. I have 2 power readouts, and of course during the summer the power was worse varying from 114 to 128 day/night. Depends on time of year also. A lot of people are re-charging their electric cars now (at 5-6pm?) and power companies are trying to compensate with the sub-station transformers. This is for my NJ PSEG.

I am presently using a variac for the front end of my rig only.

I would advise you to take a reading at different times a day/night and different times of year to be sure what the power company is serving up and logue the info.

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Are you adjusting the variac for the result you need? - kff 09:16:39 10/04/23 (1)
Setting it lower for the high input voltage and raising it for the low input voltage times?
- precisely /nt - Story 07:37:55 10/05/23 (0)
RE: what's your voltage at different times of day/night? - louie3 06:55:25 10/04/23 (0)
Guess we are really lucky. We went on a Smart Grid about five years ago. My power is consistently around 119.6-8 day and night. I suppose its possible there would be some fluctuations beyond that, but I have not seen it yet.

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