
Brief electrical outages and flickering- what tests can a licensed electrician perform to locate the cause?
I had a licensed electrician inspect the circuit breaker box and all connections, buss bars, lugs, checked for ground, signs of water leaks, arcing. He also checked the connections at the utility company’s electric meter. What else can be done? The utility company performed a “load-test” on at their electric meter and said there’s a bad connection on their equipment in the street. They replaced a part of a cable and said the problem is fixed, but there is still flickering and brief outages in my house.
I beleive your licensed electrician has checked out your side and found all is proper. Unless he made an error (and we can all miss something sometimes), the problem is still at the Utility side of the feed. Often a utility side fault is at more than one location and a second contact to them may show the weakness.
My suggestion is to contact the Utility again, tell them exactly what your electrician has done, and point out that the problem remains. Almost always they will dig deeper when provided with the data and when it is presented in an objective, neutral manner.
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