Electricity in the apartment

[Feconi]

Good afternoon! Please tell me what to do in this situation. I moved into a new apartment and 3 smart home lamps went out of order in a month. This did not happen in the last apartment.

I assume that there may be some problems with the stability of electricity in the apartment.

I don't understand apartment electricity (I only build computers), what should be installed in the apartment: an electricity rectifier or an voltage stabilizer or something else?

[Heats with Nvidia]

Why are you so sure that the lamps aren`t the problem? Maybe you just got a bad batch.

 

Also, especially a rectfier would be a bad idea, your apartment power is AC and for the vast majority of applications, you don`t want to change that.

[Biohazard777]

7 minutes ago, Feconi said:

I don't understand apartment electricity (I only build computers)

I personally do not like giving advice about mains electricity to people who aren't familiar with it.

This would be a better forum to ask that question: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php

But, seriously if you don't know what you are doing it would be safest to hire a professional electrician.

[ToboRobot]

Have you had problems with other devices?  Does your computer have any issues?  Other electronics?

I think you assumptions may be premature.

[Needfuldoer]

20 minutes ago, Feconi said:

an electricity rectifier or an voltage stabilizer

These aren't really a thing for line voltage.

 

It's good practice to put your computer on a UPS and your electronics on surge protectors. 

 

Like others said, don't mess with line voltage if you don't know what you're doing, especially since you don't own the place. Call building maintenance or an electrician.

[Bitter]

It's not unlikely that there's a lot of bad transient spikes from inductive loads turning on/off especially if there's a single main into the building and it's not all wired up just right, they might have the phases balanced wrong at the distribution to the panels or even within the panels, this can cause a lot of problems like power surges and even cases where power is drawn through things plugged in. I read one guy complaining that half his home would drop power but it would 'come back' if he turned his electric stove on and could adjust the lamps brightness by turning more coils on/off. An electrician found that his main feed had a rotten connection on one phase and his stove was wired across 2 breakers on each side of the box, bridging it across when one side went out. Scary stuff.

 

Anyway, I've been using IsoBar brand surge boxes and strips for a while, they're solidly built and from what I've read of them seem to be well made and do what they claim they do which is both surge protection and noise suppression.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006B81D/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000513US/

[MarceloDuffy]

I think it's probably the lamp's fault. Most likely they were just replaced at the same time and now they died at the same time