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Originally Posted by jrref
After reading this thread I can see where some honest people had appliance failures after the meter change and blame it on Seco. The reality is you can probably fight with them but as in one case where the A/C was 10 years old failed, you are probably not going to get any satisifaction. Why? because you will get the same power fluctuation, this Off/On/Off/On when we get a power interruption. It happens periodicaly over the years. I'm sure Seco has some sort of protection for this type of event or they would have a lot of claims to deal with. In the case of the A/C failing, when the unit looses power when the meter is pulled, when power is re-applied there is a 5 minute timer where the A/C stays OFF because it doesn't know it's prior state. So the new meter change shouldn't cause the A/C to fail even if the meter caused the power to fluctuate. In this case it might just be a coincidence. If the appliance failed during this meter change, it was probably going to fail anyway. As far as the event causing a surge, possible, but it shouldn't have been enough to make appliances fail. Surges in you home due to appliances going On and Off occur all the time. It's frustrating and unfortunate but it's important to understand the reality of things and move on.
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jrref is correct, turning off power and turning on power either by switch, by outage and restoration, or by pulling out one meter and putting in another meter, all have the same effect on the equipment in the house, 120v to 0v to 120V. A surge is generally considered higher than stable supplied voltage of 120v, which is generated from a non stable usually external source.
which is why i previously stated that there is no need to shut the house down for a meter replacement as its no different than an outage and restoration by the power company, no different than turning your house off and on at the breaker, has the same effect, 120v to 0v to 120v
unfortunately with all situations, things and stuff work until they don't, for many times unknown reasons, but that's modern day life with cheapest cost economic strategy. . ever said that they don't build 'em like they used to? well, that just happened. . .