Rhyno
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In Home interference…electrical, bluetooth, wifi, AGM sensor failures, computer operations, networking cables, odd smart phone behaviors, FM radio signal problems, smart tv menu function(s), OverTheAirTv Interference.
I am hoping to find some answers, get some info and help to resolve. Throughout the years, there has been a number of great answers found here that were provided by intelligent and experienced members. I am hoping to find these people again.
After doing as much homework as possible and speaking with local electricians, cable/satellite and internet installers, I still cannot find my answer(s) to resolve my electrical and other interference problems. My home is a 1976 home with brick exterior, low height, low angled asphalt shingled roof which is capped by tin panels and has small sized wood framed, double paned windows. It is a common conservative design of this area (single level with basement) and seems to be well built by craftsman. My wife and I looked for seven years to find this home.
The in attic power circuit lines are very organized and neatly placed in two different pathways branching off from a single grouped pathway. I have been told that this grouping of wires can cause some EMF problems versus sloppily laid out power circuit lines. When measured from the rooms directly below the circuit pathways with a ceiling height of 8ft, the TriField TF2 meter held at 24 inches away from ceiling measures 400-600 v/m (Volts per Meter). I know that I am measuring an AC line but unsure if the TriField TF2 meter is measuring DC voltage that is being radiated.
As I am writing this I just went and measured 770 v/m at 8” from the ceiling which is measured through paint, a cement ceiling with wire grid to provide radiant heat, drywall support, 2x4 studding with some areas on 16” centers, some area on 24 “centers, and through loose loose blown fiberglass insulation. The total width of the ceiling cement/drywall/paint is near 7/8”. (see Pic (2021.01.31.1212.01.Ceiling.RadiantHeat.WithInternalHeatingWireShown.20210131_121201.jpg)) So the circuit supply lines might be 4 inches away from the electrical grid used for radiant heat. I have been told that this heating grid acts like a di-pole antenna when the thermostat is in an open position causing further spread of the interference.
Across the street from my home (100ft East) are 35ft poles that have a tightly spaced 3 phase electric lines whereas the small insulators make it seem to be a line near 7200-7800 Vac. In other areas, I have seen this same size insulator upon 3000-4000 v lines. My home’s service drop is near 120ft in length of small diameter aluminum. I am unsure of the x/0 size but believe it is referred to as a 30amp drop. I am the only house upon this transformer.
With the TriField TF2 meter held at 6 ft with the device’s selector in the standard electricity position, while pointing straight up at the powerline wire span dead ending insulators, which have jumper wires to the other side of the pole and more dead ending insulators, which then continue on to the next pole which has my home’s transformer upon, I measure 500v/m where I am standing. This makes me suspect resonance as I walk in the opposite direction towards midspan, away from the dead ending insulators and jumpers and away from the transformer upon the next pole, as the TriField TF2 meter measured voltage per meter almost disappears at mid-span. I have been told that there is a common problem for this area as some farmers tend to hook up their 3 phase irrigation pumps incorrectly causing phasing problems and powerline circuit resonance problems. I have not seen as to how this might be happening, but I want to believe the theory based upon their suspected financial motivators and associated frugalness. There are at least twenty 3 phase motors upon the circuit that my home is supplied by. There are 12 small sized homes with multiple outbuildings/shops upon the same circuit. There are numerous 3 phase pumps within the area and I have been told that as soon as the power company finds a motor that is wired incorrectly and fixes it, 6 other farmers in six different directions mis-wire their pumps creating more problems based upon “my dad/grandpa has been wiring it like this for years” while very few of them having proper electrical phase training. I have been told that this seems to be a never ending problem.
Directly south of my home (250 ft) is a set of railroad tracks, RR power lines, and electrical utility lines that t- off and supply my home and others upon the same circuit. I once counted 16 conductors that are in very close proximity and at a lesser height level when compared to my earlier described eastern lines. Said southern lines run parallel with the RR tracks for many miles. There is a US Hwy upon the RR land and in-between the tracks/powerlines and my home. So the train travels on one direct side of the multiple powerlines, and 60 mph cars, trucks, trailers, and semis upon the opposite side of the 16 grouped wires. Some of the supporting powerpoles are within 24 inches of the white line that defines the outer edge of traffic. A few times per year someone will hit a pole while breaking it off at ground level taking down the oxidized and brittle copper lines. I suspect that the grouping(s) of vehicles traveling along these lines and tracks along with the train travel in both directions create something that adds to my interference problem. I believe that it is something near the effect of an emergency flashlight light that a person can shake to charge its internal battery by induction.
Via numerous people, my power supply company has a reputation of providing “dirty electricity.” I barely understand what dirty electricity is and have not been able to measure my home’s input beyond a volt meter and a TriField TF2 meter. When measured, there is a consistent 119.7vac on one leg and 119.8vac on the other leg at the breaker panel. I have not been able to capture any info during an interference problem occurrence. I have been wanting to evaluate further with some sort of oscilloscope, but have not done so yet and might not understand what I am seeing. I also do not know which oscilloscope I should buy.
After again reading Electricity one-seven, revised second addition, 1994, Harry Mileaf, chapter 4-145 through 4-155, which includes a brief low and high pass filters section of yester-year, I suspect that the addition of some capacitors placed on the exterior of my home within a metal service box and wired in between my electric company wifi power meter and my home’s breaker panel will correct most of my power interference problems plus add some capacitance to the longest circuits of my home. Within my home and the further away from the breaker panel that you get, the electrical problems increase. I suspect that this power factor capacitor correction might prevent my window AC unit circuit from periodically popping the breaker, too. The AC unit’s location and breaker panel location are on diagonal opposite ends of the home. I have seen this type of circuit capacitor installation upon many industrial circuits throughout my life but have never figured that I would need to know how to build one, how to choose the correct sized components, add it to a long existing home and correct the power factor potential problems and frequency problems within a home that I might own. As per the reference book, I also have not figured the formulas entirely in order to choose the appropriate sized capacitors/farad(s) ratings.
While speaking again with one of the local area electricians, he relayed that he recently installed something that he referred to as a “$1000 surge protector” into the area of a breaker panel while replacing the main breaker, which was within strip mall building that later became a T-Mobile store. I asked for a model number to further reference the installed part. He couldn’t recall it as the franchise owner or T Mobile supposedly provided the part. I think that I have read about these before but do not know if this will do a better job at a better price than the capacitor bank addition.
I have been slowly adding other things towards my interference problems with small amounts of success with every addition. I have built a faraday cage for my security system NVR, added snapped-on magnetic ferrite beads upon both ends of the data cables near the cameras and NVR, added better grounding to the water well circuit via cleaning up the grounding connection at the water well casing while installing a new pump, added a second grounding rod near the Breaker panel connected to the existing grounding wire but 6 feet further away, have added tinfoil shielding to some of data cables and electric lines near their crossover points, and have lifted the other data cables up to the roof rafters to accomplish a greater separation distance. I have also partially installed tin foil backed styrofoam sheet insulation in between the ceiling rafters while laying the insulation foam tinfoil side down directly upon the ceiling panels in an attempt to create shielding against the overlay of electric circuit lines and in ceiling heating grid wires. I anticipate doing the entire ceiling, but have only completed specific areas.
In addition to all of this and as per multiple warnings from my other neighbors and from multiple professional internet and Sat TV installers, I have a few nefarious neighbors, with their supporting family members and some religious based company(s) that employ cel tower worker monkeys that misbehave and abuse their position and power. I have been told by people who previously worked at these cel tower locations that these people bring in third party laptops that have special script writings and programs upon their laptop intended for and implemented against the new and special neighbors of the area. Once the monkeys capture your phone number and other identifying numbers, these scripts supposedly capture data and interactions that can be used later for their group’s benefit and against the new/special neighbors to interrupt their data transmission ability or monitor their personal interactions. These tower monkeys are not officers of the law, but instead vigilantes trying to prevent this area from turning into Kalifornia while not realizing that their actions are making it happen faster. I was told that from within these tower facilities these people repeatedly organize and capture data and have someone travel around to use some sort of wifi/bluetooth/cel phone interference broadcaster to assist with the coverup of their groups’ activities. When first warned about this, I didn’t believe the story, and started to suspect a crazy neighbor, but after being told this by multiple other people and after witnessing and experiencing too much, I know that I have been told the truth. These people have since repeatedly shown their true colors as I have documented/captured their actions. Early on and shortly after home purchase, I was told by one of the ex-cel tower employees about how smart and manipulative these people are, how they are a part/family member of a co-op of attorneys and what they were about to do and how they know about my home’s design and will supplement my home’s existing interference problems.
I ask for help in getting the internal home interference under better control which might make it easier to identify the other problem sources.
Best Regards to those that respond with help.
I am hoping to find some answers, get some info and help to resolve. Throughout the years, there has been a number of great answers found here that were provided by intelligent and experienced members. I am hoping to find these people again.
After doing as much homework as possible and speaking with local electricians, cable/satellite and internet installers, I still cannot find my answer(s) to resolve my electrical and other interference problems. My home is a 1976 home with brick exterior, low height, low angled asphalt shingled roof which is capped by tin panels and has small sized wood framed, double paned windows. It is a common conservative design of this area (single level with basement) and seems to be well built by craftsman. My wife and I looked for seven years to find this home.
The in attic power circuit lines are very organized and neatly placed in two different pathways branching off from a single grouped pathway. I have been told that this grouping of wires can cause some EMF problems versus sloppily laid out power circuit lines. When measured from the rooms directly below the circuit pathways with a ceiling height of 8ft, the TriField TF2 meter held at 24 inches away from ceiling measures 400-600 v/m (Volts per Meter). I know that I am measuring an AC line but unsure if the TriField TF2 meter is measuring DC voltage that is being radiated.
As I am writing this I just went and measured 770 v/m at 8” from the ceiling which is measured through paint, a cement ceiling with wire grid to provide radiant heat, drywall support, 2x4 studding with some areas on 16” centers, some area on 24 “centers, and through loose loose blown fiberglass insulation. The total width of the ceiling cement/drywall/paint is near 7/8”. (see Pic (2021.01.31.1212.01.Ceiling.RadiantHeat.WithInternalHeatingWireShown.20210131_121201.jpg)) So the circuit supply lines might be 4 inches away from the electrical grid used for radiant heat. I have been told that this heating grid acts like a di-pole antenna when the thermostat is in an open position causing further spread of the interference.
Across the street from my home (100ft East) are 35ft poles that have a tightly spaced 3 phase electric lines whereas the small insulators make it seem to be a line near 7200-7800 Vac. In other areas, I have seen this same size insulator upon 3000-4000 v lines. My home’s service drop is near 120ft in length of small diameter aluminum. I am unsure of the x/0 size but believe it is referred to as a 30amp drop. I am the only house upon this transformer.
With the TriField TF2 meter held at 6 ft with the device’s selector in the standard electricity position, while pointing straight up at the powerline wire span dead ending insulators, which have jumper wires to the other side of the pole and more dead ending insulators, which then continue on to the next pole which has my home’s transformer upon, I measure 500v/m where I am standing. This makes me suspect resonance as I walk in the opposite direction towards midspan, away from the dead ending insulators and jumpers and away from the transformer upon the next pole, as the TriField TF2 meter measured voltage per meter almost disappears at mid-span. I have been told that there is a common problem for this area as some farmers tend to hook up their 3 phase irrigation pumps incorrectly causing phasing problems and powerline circuit resonance problems. I have not seen as to how this might be happening, but I want to believe the theory based upon their suspected financial motivators and associated frugalness. There are at least twenty 3 phase motors upon the circuit that my home is supplied by. There are 12 small sized homes with multiple outbuildings/shops upon the same circuit. There are numerous 3 phase pumps within the area and I have been told that as soon as the power company finds a motor that is wired incorrectly and fixes it, 6 other farmers in six different directions mis-wire their pumps creating more problems based upon “my dad/grandpa has been wiring it like this for years” while very few of them having proper electrical phase training. I have been told that this seems to be a never ending problem.
Directly south of my home (250 ft) is a set of railroad tracks, RR power lines, and electrical utility lines that t- off and supply my home and others upon the same circuit. I once counted 16 conductors that are in very close proximity and at a lesser height level when compared to my earlier described eastern lines. Said southern lines run parallel with the RR tracks for many miles. There is a US Hwy upon the RR land and in-between the tracks/powerlines and my home. So the train travels on one direct side of the multiple powerlines, and 60 mph cars, trucks, trailers, and semis upon the opposite side of the 16 grouped wires. Some of the supporting powerpoles are within 24 inches of the white line that defines the outer edge of traffic. A few times per year someone will hit a pole while breaking it off at ground level taking down the oxidized and brittle copper lines. I suspect that the grouping(s) of vehicles traveling along these lines and tracks along with the train travel in both directions create something that adds to my interference problem. I believe that it is something near the effect of an emergency flashlight light that a person can shake to charge its internal battery by induction.
Via numerous people, my power supply company has a reputation of providing “dirty electricity.” I barely understand what dirty electricity is and have not been able to measure my home’s input beyond a volt meter and a TriField TF2 meter. When measured, there is a consistent 119.7vac on one leg and 119.8vac on the other leg at the breaker panel. I have not been able to capture any info during an interference problem occurrence. I have been wanting to evaluate further with some sort of oscilloscope, but have not done so yet and might not understand what I am seeing. I also do not know which oscilloscope I should buy.
After again reading Electricity one-seven, revised second addition, 1994, Harry Mileaf, chapter 4-145 through 4-155, which includes a brief low and high pass filters section of yester-year, I suspect that the addition of some capacitors placed on the exterior of my home within a metal service box and wired in between my electric company wifi power meter and my home’s breaker panel will correct most of my power interference problems plus add some capacitance to the longest circuits of my home. Within my home and the further away from the breaker panel that you get, the electrical problems increase. I suspect that this power factor capacitor correction might prevent my window AC unit circuit from periodically popping the breaker, too. The AC unit’s location and breaker panel location are on diagonal opposite ends of the home. I have seen this type of circuit capacitor installation upon many industrial circuits throughout my life but have never figured that I would need to know how to build one, how to choose the correct sized components, add it to a long existing home and correct the power factor potential problems and frequency problems within a home that I might own. As per the reference book, I also have not figured the formulas entirely in order to choose the appropriate sized capacitors/farad(s) ratings.
While speaking again with one of the local area electricians, he relayed that he recently installed something that he referred to as a “$1000 surge protector” into the area of a breaker panel while replacing the main breaker, which was within strip mall building that later became a T-Mobile store. I asked for a model number to further reference the installed part. He couldn’t recall it as the franchise owner or T Mobile supposedly provided the part. I think that I have read about these before but do not know if this will do a better job at a better price than the capacitor bank addition.
I have been slowly adding other things towards my interference problems with small amounts of success with every addition. I have built a faraday cage for my security system NVR, added snapped-on magnetic ferrite beads upon both ends of the data cables near the cameras and NVR, added better grounding to the water well circuit via cleaning up the grounding connection at the water well casing while installing a new pump, added a second grounding rod near the Breaker panel connected to the existing grounding wire but 6 feet further away, have added tinfoil shielding to some of data cables and electric lines near their crossover points, and have lifted the other data cables up to the roof rafters to accomplish a greater separation distance. I have also partially installed tin foil backed styrofoam sheet insulation in between the ceiling rafters while laying the insulation foam tinfoil side down directly upon the ceiling panels in an attempt to create shielding against the overlay of electric circuit lines and in ceiling heating grid wires. I anticipate doing the entire ceiling, but have only completed specific areas.
In addition to all of this and as per multiple warnings from my other neighbors and from multiple professional internet and Sat TV installers, I have a few nefarious neighbors, with their supporting family members and some religious based company(s) that employ cel tower worker monkeys that misbehave and abuse their position and power. I have been told by people who previously worked at these cel tower locations that these people bring in third party laptops that have special script writings and programs upon their laptop intended for and implemented against the new and special neighbors of the area. Once the monkeys capture your phone number and other identifying numbers, these scripts supposedly capture data and interactions that can be used later for their group’s benefit and against the new/special neighbors to interrupt their data transmission ability or monitor their personal interactions. These tower monkeys are not officers of the law, but instead vigilantes trying to prevent this area from turning into Kalifornia while not realizing that their actions are making it happen faster. I was told that from within these tower facilities these people repeatedly organize and capture data and have someone travel around to use some sort of wifi/bluetooth/cel phone interference broadcaster to assist with the coverup of their groups’ activities. When first warned about this, I didn’t believe the story, and started to suspect a crazy neighbor, but after being told this by multiple other people and after witnessing and experiencing too much, I know that I have been told the truth. These people have since repeatedly shown their true colors as I have documented/captured their actions. Early on and shortly after home purchase, I was told by one of the ex-cel tower employees about how smart and manipulative these people are, how they are a part/family member of a co-op of attorneys and what they were about to do and how they know about my home’s design and will supplement my home’s existing interference problems.
I ask for help in getting the internal home interference under better control which might make it easier to identify the other problem sources.
Best Regards to those that respond with help.
