HELP AC Outlets blowing devices!

SDrummer wrote:
So I went ahead and unplugged everything from the outlets and turned off all the lights. I measured the voltage with nothing on and it was 117V.

I then turned on the AC and measured the voltage again at the same outlet and it increased to 118.5V.

I checked all the outlets and on the ones I could get a reading it was the same around 118.5V.

However on two of the GFI plugs, the one in the bedroom and kitchen, The voltage readings kept fluctuating between 0V & 5V. I then turned off the AC and measured the voltage however the voltage did not change and was still fluctuating between 0 & 5V.

My girlfriend had been using the plug in the bedroom for her curling iron just fine thirty minutes prior to me checking the voltage.

Almost sounds like the voltmeter was on the wrong setting as in wrong voltage scale or DC or ... Plug in a light and if OK then you have a cockpit problem measuring the voltage.

You've burned up equipment and yet you continue to turn on high priced appliances like the AC? Hummm...

Good input from Jeff above.