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friday morning electricity
Jul. 22nd, 2016 07:54 pmor: the joy of homeownership.
the short version: i called an electrician to fix a short, and the electric lawnmower died. these appear unrelated.
the long version: something on the GFI-protected bathroom circuit kept tripping the GFI, and sometimes tripped the breaker for that circuit, too. the annoying thing was that they'd trip a random amount of time after being reset, sometimes almost instantaneously, sometimes after a few minutes.
i decided that since my only method of diagnosis was going to be disassembling all the outlets on that circuit to find the problem, i'd just get somebody with better tools to do it for me. which i did. still took him a while. the hot leg in one outlet was stripped badly, and when the house vibrated in just the right way, it would short to the outlet box (ground) itself. why now? who knows.
the lawn mower simply spun down at some point. it seemed i briefly revived it by plugging it into its extension cord more firmly. so, i suspect a connection has worked its way loose where the thing plugs in. fortunately, that's easy to diagnose and fix.
the short version: i called an electrician to fix a short, and the electric lawnmower died. these appear unrelated.
the long version: something on the GFI-protected bathroom circuit kept tripping the GFI, and sometimes tripped the breaker for that circuit, too. the annoying thing was that they'd trip a random amount of time after being reset, sometimes almost instantaneously, sometimes after a few minutes.
i decided that since my only method of diagnosis was going to be disassembling all the outlets on that circuit to find the problem, i'd just get somebody with better tools to do it for me. which i did. still took him a while. the hot leg in one outlet was stripped badly, and when the house vibrated in just the right way, it would short to the outlet box (ground) itself. why now? who knows.
the lawn mower simply spun down at some point. it seemed i briefly revived it by plugging it into its extension cord more firmly. so, i suspect a connection has worked its way loose where the thing plugs in. fortunately, that's easy to diagnose and fix.