Low Wall Voltage?

[Daethz]

My Air Conditioner is on, my Minifridge was running (like it's maximum cooling cycle) and my gpu throttled up to full load, and then suddenly my graphics driver crashed and gave me a "Hardware Kernel Error" in the reliability manager.

 

Seeing how I have replaced the PSU and the UPS already, I'm thinking I am overtaxing my actual wall power, even though I have put the minifrige on its own outlet away from the UPS which powers the PC/monitors, it's still on the same wiring I believe.

 

Is this something a electrician could fix? or is this a "rip all the wires out of your entire house and replace them" kind of thing

 

I have also been hearing clicks from my UPS, both on my brand new one and my old one, I believe that is indicating voltage drops or overages, one time I noticed a particularly loud one, and realized my drink fridge had just turned on. Seems to be at its worse when the central air is also on.

[W-L]

17 minutes ago, Daethz said:

My Air Conditioner is on, my Minifridge was running (like it's maximum cooling cycle) and my gpu throttled up to full load, and then suddenly my graphics driver crashed and gave me a "Hardware Kernel Error" in the reliability manager.

 

Seeing how I have replaced the PSU and the UPS already, I'm thinking I am overtaxing my actual wall power, even though I have put the minifrige on its own outlet away from the UPS which powers the PC/monitors, it's still on the same wiring I believe.

 

Is this something a electrician could fix? or is this a "rip all the wires out of your entire house and replace them" kind of thing

 

I have also been hearing clicks from my UPS, both on my brand new one and my old one, I believe that is indicating voltage drops or overages, one time I noticed a particularly loud one, and realized my drink fridge had just turned on. Seems to be at its worse when the central air is also on.

It sounds like you are introducing noise into the line and due to the large load it's dropped the line voltage down. The clicking on the UPS is either the AVR (auto voltage regulator) compensating for the line voltage drop of the unit itself disconnecting itself from the grid due to the poor quality incoming power. In theory if the UPS is doing it's job you should be shielded from brownouts or noisy power.

 

Depending on the power of your AC unit most will take up close to a full 15 Amp circuit on it's own so that should have a dedicated line just for itself. 

[Daethz]

52 minutes ago, W-L said:

It sounds like you are introducing noise into the line and due to the large load it's dropped the line voltage down. The clicking on the UPS is either the AVR (auto voltage regulator) compensating for the line voltage drop of the unit itself disconnecting itself from the grid due to the poor quality incoming power. In theory if the UPS is doing it's job you should be shielded from brownouts or noisy power.

 

Depending on the power of your AC unit most will take up close to a full 15 Amp circuit on it's own so that should have a dedicated line just for itself. 

I had turned it down to low sensitivity to make the clicking stop

but i just put it back on medium after this.

Thinking about calling a electrician