DuckiesDarling
Sep 5, 2010, 2:10 PM
Okay to make a long story short, two nights ago I started having problems with power. I'd be able to talk to LDD for like five minutes and it would go again. Sometimes it would leave pc on but take out modem. Lights flickering in kitchen. Then it finally just went out. I have power in the rest of the place but not in this front room or my kitchen. Ran extension cords to some surge protectors for pc and plugged the fridge into the other one.
The major issue is water. I have a well. Me and Dad worked on the box and thought we needed new fuses. I go buy them and boy the price went up in the 8 years or so since I had to buy others. $18.91 for a box of four, had to get the time delay ones cause it was for a well.
Didn't fix the problem. Dad calls electrician to come out yesterday, earlier that morning I'd been to their house to get water and take a shower, came home and crashed. Dad wakes me up and says stay awake electrician is coming. I'm like "Dad, you realize this is like 2am for me, right?" he just shrugged and said "You want it fixed you stay awake" So I stayed awake.
Electrician gets here and we find out that the 220 box has the side blown out of it, had happened awhile back cause rust was on the pieces, and says it has to be replaced cause it's only half working. I have 110 current that runs everything else but the well is 220. Stove is 220 too but I never used it anyway except for heating water for coffee.
It will be at least Thursday before we can do anything about it cause Dad wants to have the money in hand before he gets the work done. Gonna be anywhere from $300 to $500 and prolly closer to the high end. Have to replace that box and the meter base, Dad said he's gonna have him just put in breakers so I don't have to worry about fuses. So I have 4 perfectly fine 30amp time delay fuses that will never be needed for a freaking thing since the modern world runs on breakers. Maybe I'll use em for target practice :tong:
So until Thursday at least I'm sitting here with no running water, no toilet that flushes. Most of the water I get from my parents goes into the toilet tank so if I have to use it I can flush. I have a container with drinking water and I have plenty of soft drinks. Resigned myself to peanut butter sandwiches for a bit and eating hot food down at my parents. (Who doesn't miss mom's cooking?)
At least the weather has been great.
The major issue is water. I have a well. Me and Dad worked on the box and thought we needed new fuses. I go buy them and boy the price went up in the 8 years or so since I had to buy others. $18.91 for a box of four, had to get the time delay ones cause it was for a well.
Didn't fix the problem. Dad calls electrician to come out yesterday, earlier that morning I'd been to their house to get water and take a shower, came home and crashed. Dad wakes me up and says stay awake electrician is coming. I'm like "Dad, you realize this is like 2am for me, right?" he just shrugged and said "You want it fixed you stay awake" So I stayed awake.
Electrician gets here and we find out that the 220 box has the side blown out of it, had happened awhile back cause rust was on the pieces, and says it has to be replaced cause it's only half working. I have 110 current that runs everything else but the well is 220. Stove is 220 too but I never used it anyway except for heating water for coffee.
It will be at least Thursday before we can do anything about it cause Dad wants to have the money in hand before he gets the work done. Gonna be anywhere from $300 to $500 and prolly closer to the high end. Have to replace that box and the meter base, Dad said he's gonna have him just put in breakers so I don't have to worry about fuses. So I have 4 perfectly fine 30amp time delay fuses that will never be needed for a freaking thing since the modern world runs on breakers. Maybe I'll use em for target practice :tong:
So until Thursday at least I'm sitting here with no running water, no toilet that flushes. Most of the water I get from my parents goes into the toilet tank so if I have to use it I can flush. I have a container with drinking water and I have plenty of soft drinks. Resigned myself to peanut butter sandwiches for a bit and eating hot food down at my parents. (Who doesn't miss mom's cooking?)
At least the weather has been great.