Posted on 06/29/2015 6:31:59 AM PDT by HomerBohn
We’ve had smart meters since 2007- no issues in over 1200 homes.
Sounds like bad grounding at both the house and utility.
[I can’t believe I wasted the effort to even scroll to the end of this nonsensical screed.]
^ This + 1
Some people were just not meant to be home owners.
I have to wonder if any electrician ever took the time to put a multi-meter across the mains to check the input volage and phase of the lines, almost sounds like one of the grounds and one of the phases got swapped when derpy mcmoron from the utility installed the “Smart” ie. Dumbass meter.
Usually most electrical panels have 220 comming in it is split down two sides of the electrical panel, with each “leg” being 110v but running at a different phase.
Alternating current phases back and forth from +110 v to -110 volts once ever 1/60th of a seconds.
When one leg is at +110v at the same the other leg is -110v, the commond or “ground” is at 0 or zero volts.
The bus bars is most circuit boxes have alternating legs so that each breaker you add is on a differnt leg, this is why a 220v breaker is twice as thick because it draws from BOTH legs, where as a regular 110v draws from just one leg and the other side is the common.
220V dyers and other 220v outlets are different and have to have 3 contacts as they use 2 legs and the common, unlikle the regular 2 prong outlet which is one leg and a common.
Blowing out the light sounds like the moron connected the common on the house to one of the legs...
How do i know this? well a couple of years ago I got Air Conditionign installed and my brother being a consumate electrician patiently explained it to me and I have a good memory/logical mind.
Bad grounding is the most likely cause but it’s only a guess on my part. That said, and I don’t know a single person who does this, but once a breaker trips it is not safe. It should be replaced and is part of the NFPA.
There is the remote, and almost impossible chance that an extreme over-voltage event occurred and caused the current to arc past a tripped breaker which would cause an extreme over current (short) to happen. Brokers are rated to 600 volts in a typical residential panel box and typically there is a high voltage wire overhead which can range anywhere from 4000 volts into the tens of thousands volts. There is always a transformer, usually on the pole or in a ground based transformer which typically supplies 240 volts to the meter socket. How it might be possible for the high voltage to jump past the transformer to the meter socket is where the near impossibility happens. There would be no need for the lineman to work on the high voltage line to replace the meter and just about every lineman Ive ever met are loathe to work on any voltage higher than necessary and those that don’t mind working on higher voltages are quickly eliminated from the profession. There is the slight possibility that the lineman had a grievance against the homeowner or more likely against his company.
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Whatever may have happened, it happened because of the incompetence of the installer and not because of the “smart meter.”
The rest of the story is just a bunch of long-winded explanation of the typical ass covering and bureaucratic runaround.
Again, nothing to do with smart meters.
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