NCST8GUY
Frozen H20 Guy
Started about a month ago.
Downstairs big family room I have lots of stuff plugged in. One day, I noticed the TV stayed on but my desktop, both monitors, and the standup freezer all shut off along with the ceiling fans/lights. I check the breaker box, nothing is tripped.
Wife comes down, checking plugs, all the sudden, everything comes back up. I continue on with my youtubing "liberals get owned" marathon.
approx 2 weeks later, it happens again, we disconnect a power strip connecting numerous devices from a particular outlet, again no breakers flipped. I flip the reset the breaker anyways at the same time the MRS is undoing the power strip, and viola, all returns to normal.
Last Friday, we're both working from home, her in the upstairs office, me downstairs. Happens again downstairs. No lights, PC, freezer, but TV across the room is still on. I reset the breaker 3-4 times, still nothing. I finally go to the now unused questionable outlet, and "tap" it to see if it's warm. Viola, everything comes on . While doing so, the MRS tells me her laptop has been plugged in all day, but the battery did not charge. She changed outlets upstairs, but still no charging, she finally found an outlet in the kitchen that was "hot", but noticed the water cooler near the first outlet no longer held cold water. Then she finds another outlet upstairs where she swears the top outlet in the single gang dual power is working, but the bottom one does not charge her laptop. ZERO breakers were tripped at the panel!
I had a hunt club work detail weekend and HAD to leave her Friday afternoon. Spoke with some wise people along the way and picked up onedem GFI receptacle testers. Wise people at the club discussed my possible issues. Then she called last night and said it happened again, multiple (probably the same) upstairs and downstairs outlets weren't working. THIS TIME, the upstairs office breaker was tripped! But she could NOT get the downstairs to work again, until she remembered the last time, and she "tapped" the faceplate of the still unused outlet and everything came back up.
House built in the mid '80's.
Been here for 20 + years.
Accepting all HELPFUL advice!
Could be a loose outlet in a series? Could be loose but touching at the panel? Could be from when Duke Energy came to my house to "remove" some kind of old meter off of my BRAND new siding that we reinstalled because the low voltage was still hot and I could not find it in the panel to disconnect it (about a month ago!)?
Thank you for any and all helpful advice!
Downstairs big family room I have lots of stuff plugged in. One day, I noticed the TV stayed on but my desktop, both monitors, and the standup freezer all shut off along with the ceiling fans/lights. I check the breaker box, nothing is tripped.
Wife comes down, checking plugs, all the sudden, everything comes back up. I continue on with my youtubing "liberals get owned" marathon.
approx 2 weeks later, it happens again, we disconnect a power strip connecting numerous devices from a particular outlet, again no breakers flipped. I flip the reset the breaker anyways at the same time the MRS is undoing the power strip, and viola, all returns to normal.
Last Friday, we're both working from home, her in the upstairs office, me downstairs. Happens again downstairs. No lights, PC, freezer, but TV across the room is still on. I reset the breaker 3-4 times, still nothing. I finally go to the now unused questionable outlet, and "tap" it to see if it's warm. Viola, everything comes on . While doing so, the MRS tells me her laptop has been plugged in all day, but the battery did not charge. She changed outlets upstairs, but still no charging, she finally found an outlet in the kitchen that was "hot", but noticed the water cooler near the first outlet no longer held cold water. Then she finds another outlet upstairs where she swears the top outlet in the single gang dual power is working, but the bottom one does not charge her laptop. ZERO breakers were tripped at the panel!
I had a hunt club work detail weekend and HAD to leave her Friday afternoon. Spoke with some wise people along the way and picked up onedem GFI receptacle testers. Wise people at the club discussed my possible issues. Then she called last night and said it happened again, multiple (probably the same) upstairs and downstairs outlets weren't working. THIS TIME, the upstairs office breaker was tripped! But she could NOT get the downstairs to work again, until she remembered the last time, and she "tapped" the faceplate of the still unused outlet and everything came back up.
House built in the mid '80's.
Been here for 20 + years.
Accepting all HELPFUL advice!
Could be a loose outlet in a series? Could be loose but touching at the panel? Could be from when Duke Energy came to my house to "remove" some kind of old meter off of my BRAND new siding that we reinstalled because the low voltage was still hot and I could not find it in the panel to disconnect it (about a month ago!)?
Thank you for any and all helpful advice!