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In article <1378@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>Go down to the offending neighbor's elctrical panel and disconnect the
>neutral line. Touch it to one 'hot' lead, then the other. Now every
>appliance has gotten a taste of 220 volts. Hopefully his breakers
>didn't go CLICK before the nasty deed was done.

Touching the leads is unnecessary. Just float the neutral. What you have is
a bunch of 110VAC appliances in a sort of funny series/parallel combination
across a 220VAC load. Some of them draw heavy loads, i.e., have low resistance
/impedance. It follows that it will have a low voltage drop. The other items
in series have an excellent chance of NOT having a similar collective power
rating...which means that they get OD'd on voltage. The neat thing about this
is that it's an ongoing problem for the nasty neighbor (whom we assume deser-
ves such treatment) and he'll eventually have to get an electrician out to
fix it. In the meantime, perhaps you've reconnected the neutral....  ;^)

Of course, if you share a fusebox with said neighbor.... :-(


Anyone recall Jerry Pournelle's description of the Great Power Surge this
past year? Ideas abound!



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