Ah Ha moments.....they are so wonderful. I have had many many many over the last year but that darn fuse box gives me the most trouble. Remember my first fuse box moment posted 7/18/08. Well one year later here is my second big lesson learned: (drum roll please) electricity comes in 110 and 220 (don't ask the values of those numbers because I have not figured that one out yet). The reason I learned that today is air conditioning.
About 2 weeks ago I went to turn on my wall mounted a/c unit in the dining room and it didn't turn on. I got an outlet tester from my dad and sure enough the outlet was dead. So, I went to Lowes and bought a new outlet. I went to the fuse box and turned off the electricity to the room and replaced the outlet (all by myself!!). I turned the electricity back on and it still didn't work :(
So, I called my expert home repair man (my dad) and he came down today to check it out. Well, it turns out that outlet is different then all rest in the house because it draws a 220 volt instead of a 110 in order to power the big a/c unit. Well my base board heat also uses 220 and thus that one outlet was connected to a different fuse in the fuse box. Being the energy conscious person I am, I had turned all of the fuses off to all of the baseboards because I definitely do not need any more heat.
Moral of the story....the fuse box always worked I had just had the fuse turned off!!!
1 comment:
I'm just impressed that you tried to figure it out all by yourself.
At least you have AC! It was 102 degrees here yesterday. Yes, in Seattle!
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