Ground fault at a "dead end" caused a guy across the street to lose power a few months back, he didn't call it in for hours and it only affected him and maybe 1 other house
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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No burning smell at panel box?
Tried, closed today. It started last night
Bad ground.
Nope. Nada. Outlet tester shows no faults. I don’t have one for the light sockets.
On the main service?
Yes. And they were putting new poles in down the road Friday as well as running new cable for Comcast. Wondering if they didn’t F something up
Wow, closed today, that's terrible! I know, it's Easter, we never close for callouts
Chris I bought my first house it was vacant for 10 years. VA repo.
It needed everything. After I bought it I get the story from a neighbor.
The previous owner was a half *** wanna be electrical.
I Saud it shows. I'm redoing the whole house there are spliced wires everywhere.
He then tells me the whole story he never properly grounded the system. Lights were always flickering g.
His wife sat there daughter on the washer and she grabbed the water line coming in.
It didn't end well.
It needed everything. After I bought it I get the story from a neighbor.
The previous owner was a half *** wanna be electrical.
I Saud it shows. I'm redoing the whole house there are spliced wires everywhere.
He then tells me the whole story he never properly grounded the system. Lights were always flickering g.
His wife sat there daughter on the washer and she grabbed the water line coming in.
It didn't end well.
Call the power Co. Chris You don't need to have a problem with it when you're all asleep.
Hard to believe they don't have a crew on call for emergencies.
They have an emergency number to report outages. Guess I can try that.
I think flickering lights . Constituent an emergency. Although
L E D and florescent can flicker on occasion.
I would do that, it could become an outage soon. Also could ask neighbor up/down the street if they're having issues.
Unconventional
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Well that was one hell of a Easter party. Lasted all day.... But I still got up and went to work out at the local park with the little people. Lol Kkkkkkk
I see first run with mandatory no hood, open headers too?
Had a loose wire on main breaker. Could be a bad connection at meter socket.
Had my own Easter party today Mitch. Just me and a few doubles of whiskey and a steak for dinner.
Unconventional
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I've had loose connections at electric motors and their mag starters cause similar disruptions and then trip the breakers. A bad junction in a conduit somewhere could cause similar disruptions.
Unconventional
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I'll be dipt! They ran the first 40 laps at Richmond on the rain tires. 
Rain tires ???? Is that like mud tires but not as aggressive?I'll be dipt! They ran the first 40 laps at Richmond on the rain tires.
Basically racing tires with tread
So called and left message on their machine but interestingly enough, the flickers haven’t happened again since I posted in here….
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