Mikko Peltoniemi <mikkopel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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. Also, with a voltmeter
>I checked each circuit breaker. I thought maybe one of them had broken,
>but was still in ON position. I took my voltmeter, and checked
>the voltage of each wire going to the circuit breakers against the
>neutral. All came up as 120 V. And when I would turn off any one
>of the circuit breakers, the meter showed 0 V. So it wasn't that.
>
>But still, I have no electricity. What could be the issue? Any
>suggestions?
When some circuit breakers trip, they still LOOK to be on, but you
checked that.
>Other oddball ideas that came to my mind was that maybe those particular
>outlets and lights were connected to my neighbor's circuit breaker.
>Could this be?
Back in 1982, i was installing a light fixture. Since I didn't know
which breaker was which, I hit the master switch for my whole
apartment. I then climbed the ladder and zapped myself. My dining
room light and three outlets were on a circuit for the upstairs
apartment.
But this was in a house converted to an apartment at some later time.
My dining room had once been the open stairwell when "The Old Redfern
House" had held the large Redfern family -- so its concept of which
floor it was on was a bit blurry in the first place. An apartment
designed as a single unit would be much less likely to have such a
wiring error.
>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.
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
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