Last weekend was a bust, a complete and utter ball-buster of a weekend. Sunday came and brought rain, and a power outage. Only two outlets in the whole house worked, which pointed to loosing one leg of power from the supply side. After having Duke Energy dispatch a guy to check it out (it’s happened before that we’ve lost one leg of power and the power company was able to fix it - I was hoping that’s what it was this time too), we came to find out two things.

One, we don’t have 100 AMP service as we thought - we have 60 AMP service. We where planning on upgrading our power service (re-running cables, adding outlets, moving the breaker-box, etc.). You would too if you were living in our place and got a look at the way some of this stuff is wired. Now, however, we can’t really make any more changes or additions to what we have until we do the upgrade.

Two, something in the house was drawing too much amperage (with 60 AMP service, go figure) and overheating the meter-box (causing arching IN THE METER-BOX - our side of the box of course) causing the outage (it was coming on intermittently, then quickly going back out again).

After turning off all the breakers in the breaker box and bringing them back on, one at a time over the course of about 20 minutes, I had everything back up and working again. So, what was the problem? No idea, but I do know that before I let any more time slip away I’ve got to re-run all the electrical in the house. Which means getting started this weekend and possibly taking a couple of days of work off next week to finish. After all, I don’t want the place to burn down.

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No, I don’t…