[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by dotti105

Our power in Gilchrist was an issue last night again. We had a dozen breakers trip. So did our neighbor next door. His wife and my husband were both fresh out of the hospital and it was not only inconvenient but a bit frightening.

I had called home warranty last week and they had Pike electric call us to set a time to replace all our breakers at no cost. They must be backed up with requests, because our appt isn't until Oct 5th.

I just hope we don't lose an expensive appliance, AC, TV or computer due to these frequent outages. We have surge protectors, both whole house and individual, but these frequent outages will eventually fry something expensive, if not corrected.

Pikes told me, when they called, that is if is HAM interference, replacing all the breakers will take care of the problem. But if it continues, then it is something else.

Fingers crossed that changing the breakers will take care of the problem, once and for all!

I recommend that everyone in our area call for the upgraded breakers, or be prepared for some major appliance to be replaced.

Hope it works but I wonder why a particular house or two here and there and not all the others near you? Then also Gilchrist is quite a ways from Sanibel or could be depending on the addresses. Did the homes near your home say across the street also have breakers tripped? Has there been a HAM radio located? Are you near Buena Vista or nearer Bonifay?


HAM radio is an older problem and a lot better known about than the SMART Meters but hopefully they can get to the bottom of it. Possibly even if it is the meters replacing the breakers will be a fix as if they were engineered to withstand HAM radio they maybe will also survive the meters.

Good luck, gotta be aggravating and annoying but your major appliances and AC should not be on AFCI breakers so you should be OK there...