I thought somebody had changed a light bulb in my bathroom, but it was just stronger electric. It explains why my air conditioner and refrigerator intermittently grind and chug up and down.
I'm in a residential hotel, and chalking it up to extra draw from somebody earlier in the circuit. Like when the people downstairs take a shower, mine gets colder.
@Uair@actuallyautistic I live in a place where brown-outs are fairly common. Complete power outages, too. At times when it lasts more than just a quick moment, we unplug/turn off any motors/compressors that might be damaged by it.
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gawd, the cheap new fridge in here is noisy as Hell, and it’s s motors and strain and fluids - it seems to be straining with digestion, sounds like the “something,” from the Pepto commercial . 😈🤣
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on anything but a great feed, an inductive load, fans, will cause a dearth, it’s common for the lights to dull as the A/C comes on.
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Extrapolating from that. a building with one in every room might just see those effects spread out and happening with nothing coming on in your room?
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that would be the electropoles in action. the electropoles live inside circuitry and get much pleasure out of fucking with the static flow. on rare occasions they can actually be seen at work but that mostly happens in Texas. 😎
You know, the little critters with the tunnel network that grab your shoe when you're not paying attention and cause you to apparently trip over nothing.