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kengrLast night all of a sudden they lights in the living room, the tv and the setero all cut out.
What was weird was that the computer I was on stayed on.
Y'see, the first breaker in the box controls the lights in the kitchen and living room, and all the outlets in the living room.
I checked the breaker anyway. It hadn't tripped.
And the outlets on the west side of the room worked. The ones on the east side didn't.
And, (of course) my CPAP was plugged into one of the outlets that wasn't working. I had an extension cord that'd reach plugged into an outlet at the west side of the window. And afterr an hour or so I started getting it untangled from the stuff it was running past. At one point it was caught on the edge of a box. I tugged on it and before it cvame free, it tugged on the outlet a bit.
There was a bright flash from the outlet, and I noticed that some of the things on the west side of the room had power again.
I carefully unplugged the cord from the outlet. I didn't want to jostle anything again.
Tomorrow I put in a work order to have the outlet repaired.
My best guess is that the lights & outlets are daisy-chained (an all too frequent shortcut in wiring) and one of the wires going from that outlet to the rest of the room is loose. it got shaken loose by something and that cut the power out. Then the tug on the outlet connected it up again.
It's possible there's something else wrong wiuth it.
In any case, it's going to be a pain, because it means the maintenance guy will be in the apartment, and I'll have to be here to properly shut down stuff when he turns the power off to work on it.
Joy.
What was weird was that the computer I was on stayed on.
Y'see, the first breaker in the box controls the lights in the kitchen and living room, and all the outlets in the living room.
I checked the breaker anyway. It hadn't tripped.
And the outlets on the west side of the room worked. The ones on the east side didn't.
And, (of course) my CPAP was plugged into one of the outlets that wasn't working. I had an extension cord that'd reach plugged into an outlet at the west side of the window. And afterr an hour or so I started getting it untangled from the stuff it was running past. At one point it was caught on the edge of a box. I tugged on it and before it cvame free, it tugged on the outlet a bit.
There was a bright flash from the outlet, and I noticed that some of the things on the west side of the room had power again.
I carefully unplugged the cord from the outlet. I didn't want to jostle anything again.
Tomorrow I put in a work order to have the outlet repaired.
My best guess is that the lights & outlets are daisy-chained (an all too frequent shortcut in wiring) and one of the wires going from that outlet to the rest of the room is loose. it got shaken loose by something and that cut the power out. Then the tug on the outlet connected it up again.
It's possible there's something else wrong wiuth it.
In any case, it's going to be a pain, because it means the maintenance guy will be in the apartment, and I'll have to be here to properly shut down stuff when he turns the power off to work on it.
Joy.
