attn central indiana residents

[freak scene]

if you are with IPL what is your line voltage these days?

[wampcat1]

Sorry, can't help you there, I'm on REMC.

[donald stringer]

Really offtopic have any of you lived near martinsville, I went to poston road elem. in the 60"s

[wampcat1]

Really offtopic have any of you lived near martinsville, I went to poston road elem. in the 60"s

Yes- I am from there -- it is about 15-20 miles from where I live now. It's changed quite a bit -- alot more businesses there now. There is a big shopping center/plaza behind Poston Road now.

bw

[freak scene]

i live in plainfield, went to cascade in the 90's out in clayton.

but the reason i was asking about voltages: i played at a club thursday night.  we have played there twice before with no equipment problems.  thursday i blew 2 fuses within 10 minuts.  our bassist has a power conditioner with a volt meter.  it was reading almost 130 with everything plugged in and running (pa, lights, guitar/bass amps, etc etc)  the amp i am using is an early 70's garnet pro.  they run a bit hot anyway and its a bit finicky.  i plugged it in today and played at the same level i used at the club for about 45 minutes with no problems. 

a friend of mine said that IPL recently upped the line voltage to 130.  sounds ridiculous but it makes sense.  i havent contacted the club to let them know yet but i plan on asking if they have had any problems. 

so basically... how do i keep my amp from freaking out over voltages?  i looked into power conditioners/voltage regulators but those run a bit pricey.  could i just get a variac and keep the voltage locked down to keep the voltage at a safe level?  is that an unwise idea?

if this is an IPL wide issue i need to do something because virtually all the shows we play are in that area, and we are recording next weekend.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

It's probably limited to the club, they may have screwed up by having a bad earth connection and/or overloading one phase. The electricians here will know more than me.

But, here's a cheapish way to make a line voltage adjustor: find a whopping mains transformer that has a number of taps in the 90-100-110-120-130 region. Very early big old TVs had these for example. Then rig up a (properly rated!!) switch and some kind of AC voltmeter.

[RedHouse]

You can also look over on GEOFEX where RG has a little gizmo you can build into a outlet box that adjusts the line voltage slightly.
(sorr I don't have the link handy)