I remember showing that piece of cable to an electrician and he seemed to acknowledge that the energy company did that. It has been slightly windy but nothing heavy or out of the ordinary. From a distance, I'm going to visually inspect the pole and the line running down to see if there is anything unusual (loose connections, limbs). Regardless I'll be calling the energy company. I'm assuming they are obligated to check their side for such instances. Whatever they did last time did the trick and I'm hoping they can work it again as this is a bit worrisome.
You could possibly have a loose connection at the pole or the house, however the piece of cable you found was most likely from a telephone cable and not from the electrical supply line. Is there any correlation between the flickering and the weather like only during windy periods? As for one circuit causing problems with another, this should only happen if there is a heavy momentary load that causes all the whole house to experience momentary low voltages like when the AC come on while all the lights are on. We used to live in the country and not too far from a large feed mill. They had several large motors which would make the lights flicker for everyone on the common line when some of the motors would see large momentary load conditions. The power company changed out several transformers at the sub-station and the problem went away.
Dale in the Flatlands.subprong wrote:
I've noticed flickering lights indoors the last couple of days that are fairly frequent. Electrically speaking nothing has changed recently. The only thing of minor note would be that I changed out an outdoor security light bulb a week or so ago on a dusk til dawn sensored light. Is there a chance that this bulb is working properly (lit) but be somehow defective that it would trigger problems on other circuits (pulling current from other circuits)?
This light flickering happened a few years ago. The electric company came out and did something at the pole which fixed things up at the time. After he left I found a 3" long section of tightly bundled wires that had been cut and I presume replaced or adapted. It was a bunch of colored wires within a black casing. Probably about 3/4"-1" in diameter.
Basically trying to figure out if this is something on my end or their end again.
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