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Originally Posted by Username1
Sounds like Sandy's parents house had a bad ground rod, A friend had blowing light bulbs, appliances, etc. I told him the ground rod was not good, and to check the connection, & get the rod replaced by a pro, he did and it fixed his problems. It was in Atlanta, where the rod can be a set of rods because of the ground resistance.
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Sounds to me as if the bad ground was sending well over 110 volts into the electrical system (without the ground, there may well have been 220 volts or more at every outlet, and every point in the system for that matter), which accounts easily for the burned-out bulbs and damaged appliances. I'm surprised there was no fire.
If the ground rod(s) at Sandy's folks' home was/were defective, I am surprised the electric utility technicians didn't see it right away rather than saying nothing was wrong, even after all their testing. Something
had to be very much haywire, of course, if light bulbs were going bad before their time, the rectifier tube in Sandy's R-389 receiver failed again and again for no apparent reason, etc.