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Ep 169: Tinfoil Toupe (Patreon)

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2016-07-22 19:54:05
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2026-06
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Power surges; suing the government over the DMCA; storing biometrics; Musk’s Master Plan 2.0; mesh Guifi; the Disobedience Award; Pokeman robot societies; hacking the RNC; music rivalries; Stranger Things; winter is delaying; Bezos dons a redshirt.

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Ep 169: Tinfoil Toupe - The Grumpy Old Geeks Podcast Network

Power surges; suing the government over the DMCA; storing biometrics; Musk's Master Plan 2.0; mesh Guifi; the Disobedience Award; Pokeman robot societies; hacking the RNC; music rivalries; Stranger Things; winter is delaying; Bezos dons a redshirt. If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on Patreon and get all the ...

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Grim Harrison

If you had electrical equipment damaged by the failure of a utility's pole or pad-mounted residential power transformer, there is a possibility that they (the utility) will replace all the stuff that was damaged by the surge that was induced during the failure. From what you described, it sounds like there was a phase-to-neutral core fault in the transformer that brought the neutral up to some arbitrary non-zero voltage. Certain failures count and others do not. For example: a power outage that causes something in your house to break would probably not be covered. But really bad power delivery events that break electronics often are. I am not sure if this is a state law or per-utility, but it's worth a shot. Also: your HVAC system may have been negatively impacted and you don't even know it (yet). If you have a heat pump system, it would be especially worth your time to give it a serious check. Because there wasn't a fault inside your own system, there's a good chance that none of your breakers or fuses tripped. Inside HVAC systems, there are power transformers, AC motors, large fuses, small fuses, relays, compressors, fans, large capacitors (both for starting the fans and compressors), and maybe a few other components I'm forgetting. Sometimes the thermostats and thermometers are AC powered or have a neutral/ground tie but you'd probably have noticed if they were malfunctioning/broken right away. You need to check the resistances of the fan motors to see if the surge degraded their integrity, the impedance through the transformers, and the relays along with going through full changeover and emergency heat mode check too. Hmmm.... actually unless you have a comprehensive knowledge of HVAC systems, I would call a service tech and tell them what happened and that you want them to check everything for function AND integrity. If your compressor fan fails, eventually your compressor will also fail. Fans are cheaper than compressors.