I’ve been terrible sick with a fever, dry cough, headache, fatigue. Just started feeling better today.
SO, I finally tackled the electrical outlet. I shouldn’t have.
Now picture this... we have a double wide modular home. In the “front” section is a bedroom, a full bath, a bedroom with a half bath (Ray’s room), the laundry room, a living room... then the master bedroom takes up both the front and back halves of the home, with my room (an office or nursery originally) at the front half and then the master bath at the end.
SOMEHOW, Ray’s room, my room and the master bathroom share a circuit.
I shut down my computer properly, then cut off the main breaker for the entire house, started working on the outlet. 2 1/2 hours later, I finished.... but there was no juice to the outlet
I went over to hubby’s to ask about, came home, tried again and rejoiced with much zest.
Until I walked back to my room and smelled electrical smoke heavily. I checked the outlets. None were hot, all were working.
I returned to Ray’s room to try to properly ground the second set of wires. I had piggy-backed the grounds because getting both to fit on that small grounding screw seemed impossible. With much struggling, I finally managed it. Checked my outlets again. All seemed well.
Then I said bugger it all and sat down at my computer. I turned it on and it fired up... then nothing. My monitor comes on automatically and the light was, indeed, lit. The multi-outlet was lit. I unplugged everything, tried again, and again, and again... nothing. So, I somehow managed to fry my PC ???? What the heck? How does that even happen? It was turned off AND plugged in to a surge protector.
Great. Friggin great.
I would probably cry if I wasn’t so tired and ??? Resigned?
And now my iPad isn’t charging while in use. It’s plugged in to the same multi-outletlight is showing, but it’s not getting the juice for the charge. Is it possible for something to have enough power to turn something on but not charge or run beyond the bottom basics? I guess it’s something for me to tinker with tomorrow.
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