Teconmoon
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| Posted on 04-18-08 12:54:59 AM (last edited by teconmoon at 04-17-08 09:55 PM) |
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I plugged this vacuum in to clean the rec room. Once I turned it on, the entire room lost power. All the computers shut off and so did basically everything. It was somewhat funny and annoying at the same time.
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I've seen a blown light bulb trip a breaker before. On a couple of occasions.
You sure it's not defective? Or maybe your house's wiring blows?
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| Posted on 04-18-08 11:56:23 AM (last edited by Shion at 04-18-08 08:57 AM) |
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A short on a leg can blow a breaker, not just a fuse.
I should know. I've wired a leg on a 115V start switch on a console before and took out half a room up here at work because I wired neutral and hot together with Y connects...so when the switch was activated, it would do loop short and FWOOP. It just tripped a breaker...but a wire short could probably do the same thing.
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Every time we use our vacume, the lights dim, but nothing explodes.........yet.......
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 |  | Ours dims the lights a bit, depends on where we plug it in...
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