I seriously hate electric companies. My electric at my house randomly flickers, it's become a weekly occurance. It hardly shuts off, just enough to shit everything off. I have had this happen at parents house before I was married...now at my new house. It's already blown the motherboard on my ps4 earlier....it did it tonight and officially blew my computer now. All my electronics are on surge protectors but I believe I heard once it surges once the protector no longer protects it. Needless to say...I would have to likely replace surge protectors monthly.

 

Just irritated. Planned on replacing my computer anyway...but with other bills popping up I wasn't trying to this soon. Just so pissed ATM. We bought a real nice tv when he bought our new place...waiting for it to die next

This might help 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-Industrial-Protector-TLM825SA/dp/B000WJB1AW

 

There's cheaper version of the brand but they will pay out cash if it fails and your stuff breaks.

Sounds like you could benefit from a line conditioner also called power conditioners

 

Where surge protectors are only capable of stopping spikes line conditioners filter noise out of AC lines, protect against short voltage drops such as brownouts, and provide surge suppression.

 

You could alternatively try an uninterruptible power supply. They are basically line conditioners with a battery to keep you running a little while in the event of a blackout.

 

I'm not an electrician so all I can provide is my knowledge with computers/networking but if you can determine if your issues are unique to your place or if its happening to other houses on your power grid then you could try to narrow down the issue.

If it is unique to your house you might be able to isolate the issue and find a remedy.

 

For example if all the problems seem to occur in a certain area/room of your house it could just be from over taxing a circuit. It would take some leg work and math to figure out but it's not that difficult. Wattage = Voltage x Amperage. For example if your computers PSU is a 750 watt PSU pulling 110 volts then it would be using 6.8 Amps. Average house circuit is a 15 Amp circuit leaving you with 8.2 Amps left over. Of course thats assuming you're actually using 750 Watts consistently which wouldn't be happening but during spikes and with a TV/PS4/Computer/Router/Lights/everything else it can add up.

 

Just some things to consider

as Lorikz said, a UPS is something you should look into. We use them at my work to protect our laser trackers and their respective controllers from being fried. We use these at work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y24DEU/ref=twister_B00EU2ZXCO?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 

Is this just your house or several houses (or even the entire) in the neighborhood?

 

You can file a claim with your energy company/department to repair everything broken if these outages appear in multiple houses. It proves it is not any fault of your housing and more the fault of the energy company, whether they have projects going on or just suck ass.

 

If you also know/can find 30 other people in the nearby vincinity, that have the same energy company, you can claim a class action suit. They will be required to repair all damages, pay for discomforts caused by the outages, and even be penalized by the city/state. (Thank God for friends that are lawyers, I somehow know this.)

 

If they refuse to work with you, go the class action route (some lawyers will do it for free and just take a percentage of the winnings. Companies know this.) Watch the company sign a different tune.

 

This only really pertains if you believe the electric company is at fault.

Will agree with the UPS, we use them in work (a hospital).

 

Fantastic bit of kit, when the inclement weather sets in that brings down power lines or can cause momentary brownouts where the high power draw equipment would otherwise power off; these babies keep them running.  By "keep them running" it provides enough time to keep the hospital equipment from failing prior to the backup diesel generators kicking in which takes around 10-20 seconds or for the national electric grid to sort itself out.

 

In a home environment they will not keep your equipment running forever but will give you enough time (say 15-20 minutes depending on the size of the UPS and the power draw upon it) to correctly power down and shut off the equipment.  UPS's don't last forever and they do occasionally fail, though my experiences with them is that they will start failing after 5 years, never had one last more than 8 years (there are 11 UPS's of varying size and power that I have in my area), at which point I have always been able to get the batteries reconditioned/ replaced for around 35-40% of the original unit cost.

 

In all cases that I have dealt with UPS failure has been down to the batteries going bad and you find this out when you need the UPS the most and it fails or incorrect installation after it having been moved or re-sited and subsequently set up wrong.