On Wed, 7 May 2008, Snidely wrote:
> On May 7, 4:12 pm, Mikko Peltoniemi <mikko...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Actually the room where the dead outlets are has one outlet that works.
>> Weird, I thought all the outlets in a room would be in the same
circuit.
>> And the bathroom, which has no light now, has a working outlet also.
>
> Outlets and built-in lights [1] are usually required to be on
> different circuits. Bathroom outlets have been required to GFI or
> GFCI equipped for a while, and rental properties (such as where I
> live) have often been retrofitted. If you live in a slum, that might
> not have happened yet, but from previous posts I think you're in a
> better place than that.
>
> So, plug a table lamp into the working outlets, and flip c/b switches
> until the lamp goes off. Put a label by that switch. Skip over the
> 220V switches for the dryer and the stove and the 100T air
> conditioner, and then note what switches haven't been accounted for.
> Flip those mindlessly until you're ready to call the electrician.
For those working alone and disinclined to walk back and forth, an AC
powered radio may be substituted for the table lamp.
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"Thank heavens I'm atheist, otherwise I'd be in fear of going
to hell." Veronique explains comparative religion.
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