I am lucky to born in newly growing country where electronics is a kind of unknown magic. So even ghosts do know know how to hack electrical system.
Very strange how they do it?
Our bulbs blow like crazy, so we fit LEDs instead which last longer. Recently we had fitted a 'D' fluorescent ceiling light. The lamps cost £5 a time and are guaranteed to last for twenty years.
We have changed SIX in a year as the shop is getting a bit irritated now.
We had an engineer inspect the electrics who cannot find any fault.
Being told that because we live in the country, our voltage is a little bit higher (although it has always been 220Volts AC) because the grid expects more houses to be built?
So they say...lol
It is quite bliss at the moment in our house in Newark in the heat wave. The temperature is 32 degrees C. In the UK that is hot! It stays 30 deg C. in the living room but drops to 19 degrees in the passage hall way. BLISS!!!
In Wollaton Nottingham where I also live, we had a UFO flap around 1965. Got so used to these fireballs rolling down the road, we just ignored them.
Our electrics suffered a lot every time a UFO flew over. We used to wave and they flashed back. Trouble being was that they were sucking our electricity through inductance.
Our TV 625 lines CRT...many times the picture would collapse to a single horizontal line in the centre of the screen followed by a bang. Then the street lights would go out.
On one occasion they blew the master fuses but by-passed the line fuses. (you guys work this one out) My limited knowledge tells me that the line fuses acted in parallel and were greater together than the main fuses.
I recollect an electrician had to unscrew the box in the floor and remove two cartridge fuses that looked like shotgun cartridges rated at 75 amps each. 220X 75 = 165 kw (strewth......space travel must be expensive on fuel?
They nearly blew off the garage roof back then, as some anti-matter must have dislodged? The bang could be heard half a mile away as a projectile shot through the roof, travelled down the mains lead then split in half like a Christmas cracker with a bang in the air. The garage smelt of ozone and Sulphur for a while.
The used to help me with my transmitter. I had a tape recorder and plugged the output phono lead into the input phone socket creating negative feedback. Oscillations built up to fever pitch and I sent the output through a coax dipole. The result allowed me to pick up modulation on the 2000 metre bad LW for about a quarter of a mile. (kids!)
THese guys would come along and alter the wiring so I could improve my transmission. One thing I could never do was to cut wire with a knife. The table knife I had was used as a screw driver. They used it to cut the wire to expose the leads. That amazed me! I could hear banging and crashing in my bedroom and when I ran upstairs there was just silence and the knife on my bed with bits of plastic on it.