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In article <1990Aug31.034620.6474@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
>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....  ;^)
->

      I certainly don't condone this and caution you that it is potentially
   VERY dangerous.

      HOWERVER, if one is going to do something, at least give it a bit of
    thought and do it right.  After disconnecting the nuetral, wrap the
    end of the wire with electrical tape and reconnect it, tightening the
    screw lightly.  This will keep the electricain guessing for another
    $30 (half hour?) or longer since everything will appear to the eye
    as normal.