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Hi, I am Nicholas, I repair computers from home for a low paying hobby and repair PC power supplies with the skill of replacing bulging capacitors. I will try other repairs using the same skill of desoldering and soldering, and I am living in a single flat here in Auckland NZ.
About 9 months ago I noticed my computer began to power on slower. I would press the power supply unit switch and press the power on button the front of the PC and the PC would power on on instantly. 9 months ago I had to begin to wait for the power button to turn on the PC. This seems to be something like the PC needs enough power before it will power on. I would not have mention this happening but now that I know there is a voltage drop inside the flat I have recalled a few odd things related to the electricity in the flat.
A Vector Power ( Vector Power Company here in New Zealand ) Quality Inspector visited me free of charge and spent a couple of hours chatting and looking at all I had plugged and all the possible combinations of what I might have plugged in at any one time inside and then looked and tested outside at the power board that serves the 12 flats in this block of flats, and looked the large green junction box by the driveway that serves three blocks of flats here. He discovered a rather large dent in the base of the green power box and since then we have opened the box and seen what may be perhaps a damaged part in the base which an electrician may be inspecting in the next few days by the landlords order. The Vector man also left a voltage recorder plugged in to a mutibox in my flat and came back in 5 days and later showed me the graphs taken from the recorded results and the results showed definite voltage drops which he explained to me. If you were to look at the graphs you would see consistent ups and downs within a 20 mm range on the paper indicating the regular voltage and you would see two drops about 4 times as far from the top of the consistent ups and downs levels on the graph to the bottom of the page. I noted a few of the times through the time the voltage recorder was plugged into the multibox in the flat that the Vector man had left there, and the times I recorded coincided with the times of voltage drops on the graph so the Vector man told me. I think you may call the multibox I talking about here as a trailer box in the UK.
The landlord had an electrician talk with me and I told the electrician I thought an arching noise when I turned a switch back on after swapping out PC components and multiboxes and he opened the wall power switch and found it had been burning and replaced it with a double wall power switch so I would not be plugging two multiboxes piggy back and decided the problem may be fixed but it is not.
When I sit at my computer the screen flicks off and on again maybe 5 times each day.
I have opened all the light and wall power sockets and tightened screws but this had made no difference.
I am waiting for the electrician to come to inspect the box but feel under pressure now that the landlord has appeared reluctant to do anything unless I remind him of the burning inside the wall power socket the electrician replaced and the possibility of fire but he tries to reassures me I am in no danger. Hmm, I check statistics for effects of voltage drops online and they are not in the landlords favor.
Today I took the panels off the oven to check for any loose wires and because it behaves erratically, the elements on the stove sometimes being at full heat at LOW and giving low heat at FULL. In the rear of the oven I noticed two wires surrounded with something like pink bats for insulation, going into the rear of the stove where the oven may be, one white and one black and noticed both have evidence of burning there on the insulation. The white wire had not as much burning around it as the black wire and the area of burn around the black wire would 4 inches round and maybe 2 inches of burn around the white wire.
I wanted to post for any advice, the landlord is putting up a fight to not spend the money yet to do a proper inspection and think there is good grounds for him to do so now. Three other tenants in this block of 12 have told me they experienced power cut offs where devices would lose settings, like a video recorder and a computer powered off completely and not into standby like it usually did in the place where the person was living before he moved itno these flats about 1 week ago.
About 9 months ago I noticed my computer began to power on slower. I would press the power supply unit switch and press the power on button the front of the PC and the PC would power on on instantly. 9 months ago I had to begin to wait for the power button to turn on the PC. This seems to be something like the PC needs enough power before it will power on. I would not have mention this happening but now that I know there is a voltage drop inside the flat I have recalled a few odd things related to the electricity in the flat.
A Vector Power ( Vector Power Company here in New Zealand ) Quality Inspector visited me free of charge and spent a couple of hours chatting and looking at all I had plugged and all the possible combinations of what I might have plugged in at any one time inside and then looked and tested outside at the power board that serves the 12 flats in this block of flats, and looked the large green junction box by the driveway that serves three blocks of flats here. He discovered a rather large dent in the base of the green power box and since then we have opened the box and seen what may be perhaps a damaged part in the base which an electrician may be inspecting in the next few days by the landlords order. The Vector man also left a voltage recorder plugged in to a mutibox in my flat and came back in 5 days and later showed me the graphs taken from the recorded results and the results showed definite voltage drops which he explained to me. If you were to look at the graphs you would see consistent ups and downs within a 20 mm range on the paper indicating the regular voltage and you would see two drops about 4 times as far from the top of the consistent ups and downs levels on the graph to the bottom of the page. I noted a few of the times through the time the voltage recorder was plugged into the multibox in the flat that the Vector man had left there, and the times I recorded coincided with the times of voltage drops on the graph so the Vector man told me. I think you may call the multibox I talking about here as a trailer box in the UK.
The landlord had an electrician talk with me and I told the electrician I thought an arching noise when I turned a switch back on after swapping out PC components and multiboxes and he opened the wall power switch and found it had been burning and replaced it with a double wall power switch so I would not be plugging two multiboxes piggy back and decided the problem may be fixed but it is not.
When I sit at my computer the screen flicks off and on again maybe 5 times each day.
I have opened all the light and wall power sockets and tightened screws but this had made no difference.
I am waiting for the electrician to come to inspect the box but feel under pressure now that the landlord has appeared reluctant to do anything unless I remind him of the burning inside the wall power socket the electrician replaced and the possibility of fire but he tries to reassures me I am in no danger. Hmm, I check statistics for effects of voltage drops online and they are not in the landlords favor.
Today I took the panels off the oven to check for any loose wires and because it behaves erratically, the elements on the stove sometimes being at full heat at LOW and giving low heat at FULL. In the rear of the oven I noticed two wires surrounded with something like pink bats for insulation, going into the rear of the stove where the oven may be, one white and one black and noticed both have evidence of burning there on the insulation. The white wire had not as much burning around it as the black wire and the area of burn around the black wire would 4 inches round and maybe 2 inches of burn around the white wire.
I wanted to post for any advice, the landlord is putting up a fight to not spend the money yet to do a proper inspection and think there is good grounds for him to do so now. Three other tenants in this block of 12 have told me they experienced power cut offs where devices would lose settings, like a video recorder and a computer powered off completely and not into standby like it usually did in the place where the person was living before he moved itno these flats about 1 week ago.
