Thank you guys for your input. Operator Jay, I appreciate your detailed explanation. Let me give you guys some history. I bought this rural house in 1994, thirty miles south of Eugene, Oregon. It had about a dozen or more appliance tossed into the yard, burned out stoves, organs and amps, frigs, washing machines. I tore the house done and moved a MFG home onto the lot. The power company (a extremely small co-op utility, with limited resources) added a new meter pole and installed a new transformer about 80 feet from the meter (I had to remind the installer to return to the transformer an install the ground wire from the transformer to the ground rod that he forgot to do, he had left it dangling and thought he was done). Underground cable was used from the meter into the MFGH. I also have several out buildings. Over the years, I've lost 3 VCR's, dozen of 60W screw in florescent lamps, two electronic ballasts used in those skinny green tipped 4ft florescent lamps. These losses occurred in all building not just the house. I tried tightening ever screw to every beaker, neutral buss , every everything. The utility has put a data logger behind the meter and has nothing to report, except my loads are unbalanced. Somewhere I have an Email from them, they sent me a PDF file of the chart recorder.
Last month, the utility was her relocating power poles and lines ( by the way the new primary wire is looks like ¼ inch cable spliced into the old original primary line that looks like 20 gauge wire viewed from the ground. Anyway, my son and I was watching TV with video that was passing thru a VCR from our Satellite to the TV. Then the house went dead. The power was cut at the primary disconnect at the end of the street for the crew to handle the primary wires. While the crew was next to my transformer, I told him to remove the coiled pigtail they had added in 1994 from the disconnect fuse to the primary tap. I told them that 5 turn wire was an air-core inductor, so he made it straight. When the job was completed and power restored, my 3rd VCR that I was just using, was dead. Each of these VCR's over the decade lost their switching power supply.
Even now, when my electric furnace shuts off, I hear a click in my computer amplified speakers that are attached to my TV in the bedroom. I tightened all the joints in the 200amp panel in the house. Every bedroom is on it's own 20amp breaker using 12 Ga. Wire. Before I added these two 80 MFG Caps, I could here the same click in the computer speakers when the bathroom lights were turned off (4ft florescent). Those Caps are located about 100 feet of wire away from the bathroom and speakers.
I never lost any equipment when I lived in Lancaster California (Southern California Edison).
Those reading I quoted in the first post came from bench testing the Caps using the test instrument made by Seasonic model SSM-1508RA. It measures v,a,w,va,hz,pf,kwr,hr. It plugs into a 120 outlet and has it's own outlet to plug in the device you want to test. My computer has a PF of .64 .
My computer has its own separate APC UPS, my TV has its own separate APC UPS, my stereo, satellite, DVD, and remaining entertainment electronics has its own separate APC UPS. APC uses MOV's, I have power strips with MOV's. Given that those VCR's were protected by APC UPS and failed anyway, well... MOV's self destruct and you don't know when they've reached their end of life, unless you want to kill a lot of time bench testing. I think MOV's alone are doomed to an early death, but when paired with some meaty Caps that can absorb the longer slower spikes they can complement each other. What I don't know is was value of Caps to use. I've seen Triplet uses a combination of Powdered-Iron Toriod Cores bi-wound filter inductors with Caps & Mov's in a expensive power strip. These look good for items you can plug into the strip but does nothing for a whole house solution.
It was perhaps a poor choice of words to say, "due to the charge imposed by the impedance of the primary lines", however I think these lines store instantaneous voltage for a couple of microseconds in the form of inductance or capacitance as does the
iron core of transformers when the utility goes dead or is reenergized. The lineman working on my transformer pole admitted that when he works on underground AC primary lines he must discharge them, because after power is removed those wires are charged with a high amount of DC voltage because the wires are now a DC storage capacitor, I could easily understand that.
I don't really care about the power factor as far as cost savings go, but I think it explains the death of so many appliances.
The Caps were installed in their own metal box, mounted onto the meter box with 8 amp fast blow fuses attached to each Cap. Then the wires passed thru a grommet into the meter box where they attach to dual 20amp breakers. The common was connected to the neutral buss. Each of the three wires, each contain three 14ga. Enamel wires twisted and soldered together, then solder directly to the Caps, to eliminate oxidation and resistance. There is a 80 ft of cable from the Caps before entering my home or outbuildings.
The utility is ignoring the very long history of failed appliances on this property. When I bought this place in 1994, everything from the power pole transformer to the grounding rods, to every piece of electrified wires have been replaced. The only remaining common denominator is the primary power distribution from the utility itself.