I have this problem. Once a year electronic systems in my presence—generally those I own— stop behaving as they should. This time around I lost two GFCI outlets, my bedroom ceiling light, a 1×4 HDMI switch, my entire talislegger site, and oh yeah, my local network infrastructure. I’m trying to look at the problem in the same way ‘garbage in, garbage out’ way I approach my diet. I recognize that if I don’t eat good food then my health is going to suffer. I suspect bad power may be to blame here in some way.
The site is a separate and coincidental (maybe) issue. I don’t host the ‘legger from home, so if there is a problem it is due to the host company dropping the ball. However, the rest of these maladies are all centered on the home. I wonder if all of it is actually about the power coming into the home not being enough and brown out quality electricity damaging the equipment?
It feels like a reach, but it also feels real to me. No, this is not a hypocritical example of confirmation bias but a moment of realization that my assumptions about the quality of the electrical grid In my zone have no basis in reality. Recently I saw two new structures go up in my town. One is a Big 5 and one is a Culvers. The Culvers project predated the Big 5 by half a year. However, the Culvers is still building and the Big 5 opened over a week ago. The quality of labor here is vastly uneven and I don’t know if a Culvers team or a Big 5 team built my house or even if the one that went up faster is worse than the one that is taking a long time.
Here is one thing I know: I’m not happy with the electronics and it is only getting worse.