House AC Line Variance

Tbg,

Sounds like you have experience with regulators. So what do they do to the sound that is poison? Have you listened to battery UPS types? And do you prefer line conditioners? Transformer-based or not?
I am in communication with the power company but the neighborhood is 75 years old and it seems like they won't be of much help.

Interesting problem your friend has tbg, in my neck of the woods you have too much voltage much of the time. I see 130 volts at times. Funny coincidence, i was checking the output of my isoclean isolations transformers the other day. The wall was sending in 130+ volts. I was able to get exiting power from 119 volts up to 150 and more depending on which tap i came off of. Your friend could use one of these boxes to step his power up.

G_m_c, yes, I had not thought of changing the taps to get what you want. If I recall, however, the lowest tap is 110 volts. Would going in on that and out on 117 give you a kick up?

Benb, I have had very poor luck with ac filtering. The IsoClean system, the Walker Velocitor, and the Sound Applications are the only units I have heard that help more than they harm. My house was struck by lightening with the system on and plugged into the Sound Application. While many things were blowen out in the house my system was unaffected. I had the computer on a UPS device. It and the computer were gone. That was learning the hard way for me. Incidentally the lightening blew a hole in the gas line going to a water heater and ignited it. A day later when we had no hot water, I checked and found an open flame. Luckily it was far from any wood so our house had not burned down.