My shock story, Thunderstorm in jville fla, I walk past the tv and push the button to turn it on. Lightening lights up every window, Big Bang and a shock hits my finger, throwing my arm back off the tv, that is followed by a case of Tourette's as every expletive I know is pouring out of my mouth. That burnt wire smell is all through the house. Next morning investigation finds a big scorch mark on my chain link fence, corner of my foundation blown out, and the dishwasher completely fried. I must have hit the button exactly at the right time. Remarkable the tv was fine. I guess I took the surge.
Missed this the first time but I am guessing you were saying you hope it's not my house because of the rough shape the box looks to be in . Yes it does look rough but the way they ran the electric in here is they ran it underground behind the homes up against the golf course. They brought the meter up for the homes with the disconnect below it, it then runs under the back yard to the home. I left this to move into the old 2 bedroom hovel I'm in now. Didn't need the big place so renting it out and if the place I'm living now gets blown away while I'm traveling I won't care much.
LOL I was worried that might be in your basement looked very old and kind of outdated and scary. The house and grounds are nice , again glad that is not inside the house .
Yeah, some of the inside was scary looking, did quite a bit of work since I bought it in December. I have had worse looking though, years back used to do some work on places in exchange for living there. Those were usually in bad shape because the owner didn't want to spend the cash on a GC to do the whole job.That's what struck me about the lightning arrestor, all the work I have done on old places and never ran into one. I generally don't get too in depth on electric though, plumbing and carpentry are my forte.
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/loc.../86566060/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= Don't try to one up up me on hovelville. EVER. My house was built in 1936, and it's a goddamned marvel of modern science. As in not. It's novella worthy. I'm too tired to regale you, but the old man is in the trade, and it's basically a tale of a shoemaker without soles on his shoes. Things will get better for you. It's tough to have gratitude at times for having a shitty roof over your head, but it's home. My old man will get back from frolicking with his family early next week (I just know that they're killing each other, can't wait for the dirt). Rule of thumb, turn off the power, lol. Plumbing experience, really? At this point, I'm ready to take a dump in an outhouse. I'll even build it myself. Jiggling the handle is so Flushing, Queens. Be good, and if you have any specs or questions, PM me and I will pass them on.
Appreciate it. I'm pretty much set on most know how, except on electrical, electrical I'll always ask the questions because I have too many national parks yet to visit. Don't want to get zapped.
I'm posting this from my husbands computer, it was the last web page open before he went out to work on the electric the other day. It didn't go well. I kid, took the lightning arrester out weeks ago and it held up good for a week before the breaker tripped again. Got it back on and called the electrician to order the breaker, of course he said it was going to be a few days to come in. Fast forward 2 weeks, breaker still not in and breaker won't come back on this time, some joyous Florida weather to enjoy with no ac in August.
Was thinking about going full Hornet, but everyone knows you never go full Hornet. And I did get it back on for now, propped a piece of PVC pipe holding the breaker on with wire ties around the breaker box holding the pipe in place, a marvel of modern engineering.
First, i read the first sentence and thought, I call hornet. Secondly, propping up the breaker is crazy dangerous. Be careful bro
If it was an inside breaker panel I would never think of doing it, being it's outside and it runs right to another 200 amp breaker on the main panel inside should be ok until tomorrow.
Sounds safer, I once used a 7mm deep socket as a substitute for a pool heater fuse, I am all about the rig job when it calls for it.
