147 volts?

gusco1

i have been tripping breakers . after replacing 2- 20 amp breakers and a 100 amp main i found my power to have 147 volts. isnt this high for a standard apartment? what do i do?

Speedy Petey

Sounds like an open service neutral.
Do the lights in your house go bright and dim?
Does turning on the dryer or electric range have any impact?

I would call an electrician right away to rule out any problems inside your house.

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Yoyizit

In MD it is supposed to stay between 126 and 114 volts.
Depending on how long the voltage has been doing this, some of your stuff will die prematurely, especially incandescent lamps.

rgsgww

Sounds like a loose neutral as speedy petey stated.

Call an electrician asap, he will see if its any problems on your side of the service.

joed

If this is an apartment as you stated call the landlord or an electrician. Do not attempt to service this yourself.

Speedy Petey

Good catch Joe. I glanced right over the apartment part.

I agree. gusco, DO NOT do anything other than call your landlord.

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jerryh3

I would also unplug anything you don't need.

jamiedolan

I might also start unpluging anything you care about until this problem is resloved.

Jamie

DRFREON

A very good "rule of thumb" applies here: voltage variation is plus or minus 10%. I would contact your utility first; has there been significant voltage variations? This sounds to me like a step-down transformer on your pole, or another location in the neighborhood. Current increases to the square of voltage drop-see Ohm's & Watt's laws.

Speedy Petey

Hey bcde871, SPAM much????

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Speedy Petey

Well, three days and no word from gusco.

He was on the site yesterday. You think he would have given us some more feedback.

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gusco1

the voltage problem was the supply to the meter. dominion power fixed. everything is o.k. i thank you for the feed back. and not everyone is speedy,petey.

Speedy Petey

Sorry if I offended you Gus.
It just gets very disheartening when someone posts a question, especially one that prompts more questions, and then disappears.
We all make an effort to help and get no feedback, even to clear things up.

Thank you for your feedback.

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Stubbie

Speedy you seem to get all the attention.......

Marvin Gardens

Agreed. Feedback from the OP is learning for us so we can better help the next person.

Looks like this OP posted and bailed.

Kind of like dine and dash, or gas and go.

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