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> Mikko Peltoniemi
<mikkopel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>So I was on the computer, then all of a sudden I hear BOOM, like an
>circuit breaker tripping, and everything went quiet. The computer
>was off.
>I took a peek in the electrical panel, but no circuit breakers had
>tripped. Odd, I thought. But I still didn't have electricity to
>my computer.
>I did some investigating, and it seems the bathroom light, and two
>sockets are dark. That's it. Nothing else.
If it's a bathroom circuit there's a good chance
there's a GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter)
on the wiring.
So... if there was a bit of an electrical leakage
to ground, that GFCI would "see it" and open up
(shut down) [a] all the wiring passing through it.
The "BOOM" probably isn't the GFCI - they're usually
more of a "click" or even "CLICK", but that could
have been the original electrical issue.
[a] in electrical stuff, an "open" switch
means the wires are pulled apart, and there's
no current going through. This is different
from a water valve/faucet, which when "open"
lets fluid through.
boom"
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