well, THAT was annoying...

[acroyear]

every so often, the circuit breaker that controls the external plugs (including the garage) trips for no reason whatsoever (though it tripped in a major way in may when the siding guys screwed up the back door plug).  well, it did that while we were gone.

the garage fridge is on that line.

well, so much for 1 pot roast, 4 prime ribs, 2 burgers (thankfully we'd gone through most of the burgers over july 4), lots upon lots of frozen pasta-vegetables, some various frozen things we'd never get around to eating, and, oh well, the top of the wedding cake (not that we've bothered to open the damned thing in the last year).

and so much for a butt-ton of leftover sodas i simply won't drink anymore.  not only was i removing them from my diet, but after having had "real coke" from britain (still made with real sugar and not "high fructose corn syrup), i almost have reached the point of never again (except when passover coke is available in the spring).  this from a former 2 coke-a-day habit man.  only lost one beer 'cause i tried hard to have no leftovers after the july 4 party.

so only lost about $50 in "stuff" (veggies and the steaks) which isn't too bad.

when we get the electrician to finally do something about our voltage issues, we'll see if he can up the ohmage on that sucker to hold it stable.

Comments

Does it happen when it rains?

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

Usually the "for no reason" ones are GFI's getting kicked. If you've got a wall plug on the outside of the house, and rain wets the socket all the way down the wall to the groung, the GFI will pop open. A lot of the time there's only one such circuit and it also houses the sockets in the bathrooms, so if your electric razor stops working, that'd be why too.

Re: Does it happen when it rains?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

there doesn't seem to be any predictable pattern to it. i just notice that it's "dropped" and i go flip the switch and then check the temp of the freezer (i keep ice-packs around everything anyways for short-term drops, but if its off more than a day or two because i didn't notice, then its screwed).

rain, sun, whatever. yes that circuit also hits the master bath but that one never has anything more on it than a 5 watt nightlight and a charger for cyd's electric toothbrush. its not the bath i do shaving in, which has never dropped. it never seems to be caused by anything we actually do or any weather we can see. it just...drops.

Re: Does it happen when it rains?

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

You should make a small circuit that plugs into the same outlet set as the freezer that also has a 9V battery, and beeps or buzzes if the power to the outlet cuts. Jsut to make your life easier.

Re: Does it happen when it rains?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah, when i'm home and/or get home before the battery runs dry ;-)

Re: Does it happen when it rains?

[bkleber.livejournal.com]

Not too tough with a 555 timer to make it intermittant. One beep every 15 seconds will draw it out a good long time. But yreah.. sounds like a real pain.

I put in a vote for the comment saying put in a spare circuit. My dad did at my parents' house, and their problems have gone away as well.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

My first thought was rain and a GFI circuit, too. We used to get that all the time. Very annoting and inconvenient.

Another possibility is that the garage freezer may be on a circuit that is not set to handle a appliance load (vs. small electronics likes lamps and razors). We found that out when we brought in an electrician and he was surprised the house hadn't burned down from the excess load caused by our garage freezer.

A couple hundred dollars later and we had 4 (instead of one) GFI circuits and a new dedicated circuit for the garage freezer with the correct capacity. Haven't had a relay switch blow since and we're coming up on two years.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

It could be a GFI, no wait, everyone else covered that. GFI blows our kitchen outlets offline sometimes for no good reason. Wiring appliances into a GFI circuit would be a sign of a bad electrician. And if it's the master bath, then yeah, almost for sure that's it. One of the good things about GFI is, if the toaster you keep plugged in in the bathroom falls in the bathtub, it won't electrocute the bather.

The part of the post I can contribute on is the coke. But then I re-read your post and see that you know about passover coke. I have a two liter or three in my bar cabinets. I have this theory that corn sweeteners don't mix probperly with rum, and only a barbarian would mix the two. So I keep real coke for making a rum and coke that you don't have to wear furs and a really bad hat to drink.