Oh, and, we do not live in an area with dry soil. Topsoil is fantastic loam, and subsoil is clay.
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Sorry, I missed reading your earlier posts about your FS140 Surge Protecter. That device appears to be a high quality unit. I guess I was looking at the most recent picture and didn’t see a surge protector mounted. I will do better in the future and re-read the full Discourse thread. Apologizes.
Pfft, apologies? None needed!
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You have a real dilemma with so many different areas of ‘ownership’ and conflicting interests. “Whose problem is it?” You almost have to have everyone involved agreeing to the problem and the solution to act on any change. Seems like a real up-hill battle to get everyone to reach a consensus.
I’m still interested to see what your utility company testing analysis shows. Hopefully you will be able to post the results. As for the SENSE monitor, It seems to me that the software should have reported this fault as @kevin1 stated.
I KNOW 
Sorry to spread replies over multiple responses. I’m busy flipping tables and yelling at the sky over this.
You can be sure that if the HOA does decide to replace the whole meter panel, I’m going to fight tooth and nail to get the rarer and more expensive ALL copper model. Not the “copper except one piece of the busbar”. ALL copper.
If I could replace this SEC, I’d replace it with an ALL copper or a CCA in a HEARTBEAT 
The problem with the utility company testing is that, as the problem is intermittent, and also seems to happen only when things have been moist for a while, the damn analyzer has to be on there for long enough to be on there when it rains for a few days. So I’m literally relying on the weather to cooperate.
After the plumbers left today (for some unrelated work that also included finally installing a high flow spigot near the water line entrance) I got my hose out with my Cloudburst nozzle and really simulated some rain over the MeterPak. No faults yet. 
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I was unable to add a followup after the issue was fixed since that would have been a double reply. I’m trying again now a year later since that limit might have timed out.
After nearly a year of fighting with the HOA, last year I finally convinced them to disassemble the shared meter panel to check it.
And y’know what?
The neutral lug for our meter drop was stripped out and barely contacting! Though the proper fix for UL compliance would be to replace that part or the entire unit, that’s too expensive for them. So my electrician drilled it out, tapped it for a larger thread, and installed a new lug. Tada, problem solved!
The problem was exactly where I’d been telling the HOA management company for months - apparently he was absolutely flabbergasted when the electrician was on the phone with him. And since I use the same electrician as they do, they trust him.
Throughout this process sense was absolutely invaluable. The only other way to collect the necessary data would have been to buy a high storage capacity recording oscilloscope, install safe voltage test points for my interior panel, and leave it collecting for weeks. There’s absolutely no other way this would have gotten fixed when the power company AND multiple electricians from separate companies could found nothing wrong on their own.
Now that it’s fixed and my neighbors know about the saga, I’m hearing about others with bizarre power problems that nobody can solve. I’ve been telling them all to get sense.
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@test35965 , congrats on solving !
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