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So I'm trying to go to bed but the light I use so I can see when I get up is all busted. So I shake it around violently and notice the 'Made in China' label. I keep doing it anyway because I hate crashing into things in the dark.

Irony laughs at me.

Moments into trying to beat life back into it, the bulb comes to life--and busts. But get this: It blows the fuse too.

At 2:30 AM.

And I have to walk past my parents to trigger the fuse back. (It's really a switch, thankfully)

So I sneak down and do that...

...And I think I might replace it with something which DOESN'T take out massive fuses.

Like... a LED light which lasts 10x longer.

Anyway. Any of you blow out a fuse in a (spectactular) way?

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Posted on 03-02-08 02:45:16 PM Link | Quote
That's a consistent problem at work up in our office. Thankfully it only throws the breaker most times, but just the slightest overkill is enough to knock out power to half our office...worse if we wire something wrong (like put L1 and L2 in a short in wiring and throw the switch) and send 115V feedback into the breaker.

Best I've got for electric malfunctions period is day I started high school at 1 in the morning. I got woke up because my ceiling fan, of all things, woke me. Why? Because it was spinning so fast that it was making enough noise to wake the dead and was continuing to spin faster until finally sparks flew from the ceiling and then it died.

It's 1 in the morning. I'm thinking this is a dumb nightmare or something but nevertheless I get out of bed to search for the light switch and then all the power goes out. I'm hearing muffled curses words two rooms over and apparently there was an electrical fire that broke out in one of the outlets in that room. Whatever feedback was sent from down the line hit our house and caused our entire wire network in our house to, effectively, bite the dust. The gauge wire that was used initially was over what it normally should have been, so it took a lot more punishment than most do before something like a breaker would get in its way. After it hit our house, it fed back into the outside transformer on the telephone pole and lit the sucker one side out the other.

Needless to say, that was a 5000 dollar b*tch to repair.

4 o'clock in the morning rolls around and I'm trying to get back as they're about to turn back on the power. I lay down and not a MINUTE later the power feeds into the house but in a bad way; it surges...directly into my comp with a loud WHRRRRRRNK. A few dozen amps of power does that. The next thing I hear is a large steady tone beeeeeep sound that eventually died in pitch and then faded to nothing. That was the trigger speaker on the surge protector that I had melting. There was also a black spot on the floor from where it ignited. The computer, luckily, didn't take any damage.

At this point, I'm thinking 'bad fucking omen' for the first day of school.

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Posted on 03-02-08 06:38:38 PM Link | Quote
We haven't actually had any electrical problems, thankfully... at least, not at home

Here, it's mostly just the breaker loving to flip, but most important things are on a surge protector/UPS/what-have-you, so it's not as bad as you'd think...

We still think there's a problem with our electrical system in this apartment though, since lightbulbs burn out very frequently and a few other things...

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Posted on 03-02-08 09:38:09 PM Link | Quote
A few years ago, I was messing around with a lamp that I had gotten along with a desk. I knew I was going to use it, but it required a lightbulb. Unfortunately, I couldn't use any that we had, so I was at a loss for a while. Then I remembered that there was a broken flashlight under my bed. I went and got it out and took the little lightbulb out of it. I already knew that it wasn't going to be big enough to fit in the lamp, so I took out the wires where the little lightbulb rested on to recieve electricity. I shaved off the rubber around the wires and had the wires touch the lightbulb slot. Success! I got the little lightbulb to light up. Now I needed to have it stay in the slot so I unpluged the lamp and went to get the tape. I taped it on and then connected the lamp to the power outlet. So far it works. Then I disconnected it again, and went to see what my brothers were doing. After a little while, I decided to make sure that the lamp still worked. I pluged it back in, and BZZZZRT! Sparks came out of the lamp and half of the house lost power.

Wow, what a bad time to have this happen. My parents weren't home yet and I had half of the house lose power. Unfortunately, the half that lost power was the one with all the computers and stuff like that were connected to. Knowing we had lost power, my brothers came to me telling me that the house lost power. We chect every device that was connected to an outlet and found that the living room had not lost power, so we got an extention cord and have everything in our room connected to it and waited until our parents got home.

When our parents got home an hour or two later (finally!), we told them about how half of the house lost power and they proceeded to fix it.

Now I know to never try to do something like this ever again.

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Posted on 03-03-08 01:42:45 PM Link | Quote
The light in the kitchen here always goes out after a bad rain or snow... that's about it. When I was younger I stuck my fingers in a light socket, though.
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Posted on 03-03-08 11:23:15 PM (last edited by roger3245 at 03-03-08 08:26 PM) Link | Quote
Meh, my house has the office (with 8 comps on all the time ), ant the MASTER BEDROOM WIRED TOGETHER. About 5 computers have to be hibernated/turned off before I can even vacuum the bedroom.

EDIT:

Also had a disassembled bubble pump (for my fish) on my desk, and had it plugged into my desk's power switches. I forgot about the pump for a few months, and when I was (finally) cleaning off my desk, I grabbed the pump, noticed it was a bit warm, and got a good zap from it.

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Posted on 03-04-08 12:51:51 AM Link | Quote

Our house appears to be decently wired *crosses fingers*... However, our backyard setup (an ancient pump for the garden, and the pool systems) is nowhere near that.
Last summer, we were planning on replacing our current pump system with a new one, which would require a new hole. After spending hours banging pipes into the ground, we brought over the new pump, hooked it up, and then ran an extension cord (recently purchased)- to the ancient power box which had provided power to the old pump.
This is a scary-looking box- it is ancient, all of its screws are gone or so rusted as to be useless, and gets filled with bugs all the time. It runs to the power system in the pool-house, via an underground wire which is blatantly compromised and is not well shielded at all. However, the old pump always worked on it... (I can't really say it worked "fine" or even "alright", though)
So, we plug it in, and nothing happens for a few seconds. A run over to the pool-house shows that we blew the circuit breaker, so we try again... This time, a massive snap from the pool-house- audible across the yard- is heard, and a large spark erupts from the extension cord. Obviously the circuit breaker blew (actually, all of them did, though nothing else was using the power at that time) and the extension cord was smoking, the plastic fused with the pump cord...

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Posted on 03-04-08 01:13:45 AM Link | Quote
Our wiring is pretty screwy, see, the guy who lived in this house before us did the wiring for the basement himself, and we know he fucked something up, because the most lightbulbs last down there is two weeks tops. Every time we flick the light switch, something blows out. It's ridiculous. I also once blew a fuse when a brand new lightbulb I had just put in decided it was going to blow out before it even got used. I'd say we're lucky the only thing the wiring here screws with is our lightbulbs.

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Posted on 03-04-08 01:18:30 AM Link | Quote
I may never have blown a fuse... But I did nearly electrocute myself. I was trying to fix an old TV so I hooked up this cord to an outlet not knowing that the end had been cut from the TV. I look at it for a second, then realize what I just did. I end up dropping it on top of the TV causing the screen to suddenly turn on. It starts sparking like mad and the screen pops. I run over and unplug the wire... Jeez that was scary... The lights did flicker during this, but nothing more...

In other news, I did lean on the light switch to all the lights in the Gym... Pretty funny considering a school event was going on and it was mostly a lot of freshman girls. For 10 seconds all we could hear was *SHREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIK*

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Our hot tub blew it's breaker, and then it's internal fuses. Not much happens around here, probably the craziest I've ever had is when I've leaned on a live electric fence (and no, I didn't feel it ), and when I've been working on my computer system

There's also teh tiem our rabbit chewed a 120 volt power cable. it acted like nothing had happened.

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Posted on 03-04-08 01:55:18 AM Link | Quote
Jul - Post #2354 - 03-03-08 08:55:18pm
The power's gone out twice here recently, which is odd, since this is supposed to be a very robust power grid designed to withstand extreme weather and the weather has been pretty mild. It's also a problem, because the furnace depends on electricity for some reason. (And because I'm trying to run a web server here...) The second time, a few hours ago, I managed to not even notice for a good few minutes. I came out of the bathroom and went upstairs, noticed some dishes I'd forgotten to wash, and washed them. There was enough light coming in the windows that I didn't see the need to turn a light on. I noticed the microwave was dead, but figured someone had unplugged it or something (it's pretty screwy). Wasn't until I finished washing them and went back downstairs that I discovered everything else was also dead. It must have just went out as I was halfway up the stairs, far enough that I couldn't hear any appliances running (and thus notice the sound suddenly stop).

Also when I was a kid I found one of those fuses that screws in to the socket, and noticed it would fit perfectly in a lamp. ZAP! Bright flash, bit of smoke, the lamp didn't even work for about 10 minutes afterward.

Originally posted by Shadic
1) Was sleeping in a (Mostly) unfinished basement. When I woke up and went to turn on the light (The switch was missing a cover) my hand went straight into the box itself, which gave me a nice shock.
I came so close to that many times in this room, it always scared the fuck out of me. I eventually had to buy some switch covers and install them myself. I've done that before and yeah, not a nice thing.

Originally posted by Tanks
I may never have blown a fuse... But I did nearly electrocute myself. I was trying to fix an old TV so I hooked up this cord to an outlet not knowing that the end had been cut from the TV. I look at it for a second, then realize what I just did. I end up dropping it on top of the TV causing the screen to suddenly turn on. It starts sparking like mad and the screen pops. I run over and unplug the wire... Jeez that was scary... The lights did flicker during this, but nothing more...
Heh, you dropped a live wire on the screen and it started going crazy? Neat. I had a TV once that when you turned it off, sometimes there would still be a glowing green dot in the middle of the screen. I was always afraid it'd like catch fire or something. Had another one that sometimes when you turned it off, it wouldn't turn completely off and you could actually still see the picture on the screen, dim but still moving. That was weird.

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Posted on 03-04-08 05:01:57 AM Link | Quote
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It seems to vary from place to place. I did it once and hardly felt anything, but when I did it here I couldn't move for a good few seconds.

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In my apartment two years ago, I went to plug in my alarm clock when shocks shot out, set my bed on fire, and burned my hand. Yes, it also tripped the circuit breaker.

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Originally posted by NSNick
In my apartment two years ago, I went to plug in my alarm clock when shocks shot out, set my bed on fire, and burned my hand. Yes, it also tripped the circuit breaker.


... A freak accident... started by an alarm clock... ???... *shudder* great, now I'm getting a fear of outlets...

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Posted on 03-04-08 06:00:37 PM Link | Quote
A few years ago, a lamp fell down and broke and made a large spark. This freaked the fuck out of me, but I was like 9 or 10 or something. I then proceeded to draw about it.

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Posted on 03-05-08 12:09:00 AM Link | Quote
This thread reminded me of a story my teacher told me. He apparently was given a hunting corn knife by his wife for Christmas. He didn't see much he could do with his new hunting corn knife so he hid it on top of the fridge. One day his kid walks by and knocks the into the fridge, knocking the knife behind it. It slides down, blade pointing downward and slips through the electrical socket where the fridge is plugged into. when it hit the plug for the fridge, sparks flew out from the sides of the fridge, semi burning his son. My teacher then went and kicked the plug away and found that his hunting corn knife now has two very large holes in it.

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Originally posted by Tanks
This thread reminded me of a story my teacher told me. He apparently was given a hunting corn knife by his wife for Christmas. He didn't see much he could do with his new hunting corn knife so he hid it on top of the fridge. One day his kid walks by and knocks the into the fridge, knocking the knife behind it. It slides down, blade pointing downward and slips through the electrical socket where the fridge is plugged into. when it hit the plug for the fridge, sparks flew out from the sides of the fridge, semi burning his son. My teacher then went and kicked the plug away and found that his hunting corn knife now has two very large holes in it.
Why would he put a knife in such a place? He was practically inviting disaster.

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