Keep an eye on the breaker panel. I had mysterious loss of power for anywhere from a few seconds, to several hours.
One of the buss bars was going south. If there was enough current, it would work. In the middle of the night, when there was hardly any current the lights would go out.
At first I suspected a breaker gone bad...replacing it, "fixed" it for about a week (I must have moved things around enough to give it a fresh contact surface).

Anyway.... Keep an eye on it, ok? I don't want to read that your place burned down.

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Kuan, once had a similar problem myself. All outlets on the interior walls and ceiling fixtures would go out on my second floor for no apparent reason. House is over 25 yrs old. Turned out to be a wall outlet with loose contacts that affected everything wired down the line behind it. Point being it looked major, turned out to be $2.00 minor. Be careful either way. Electrical is the one thing I will not touch at my place unless the whole house is "dead". Spouse is the one with 1,000,000 policy and even then, I can't be in the same room and so sneak to turn everything off. Shocked myself before pushing a thermostat back into a running dryer(minor zap) and grabbing a sparking coil wire on a Toyota(major zap, arm hurt for hours!). Do not every want to be situation where it gets me and I don't live to know it!!

This response on a shop forum?

I was stuck in a waiting room years back and while reading a Field & Stream,
saw a story about Amazon natives who had developed a method for curing poisonous snakebites.

They would recreate your mishap with the coil, applied to the area of the bite.

The magazine was very impressed with the 'cure',
although I've never heard anything about it since then.

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dieselbenz

I concur with several of the previous posts..... If you don't know what you're doing with electrical systems, then find somebody who DOES, and have them take a look at this problem.

Having half of the power in your home randomly go off and then return is NOT normal, and is indicative of some kind of serious problem..... probably a bad bar in the breaker box, as previously suggested. Such a problem can be a very REAL fire and safety hazard, and is not to be taken lightly.

Mike

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do something wrong and burn your house down (and insurance will baulk at paying) or electricute yourself (easy to do) either one its not a DIY for someone not versed in electrical codes.

Just like you wouldn't do your own surgery or dentistry.

And outlet or switch can be a DIY job but replacing breaker panels are not.

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I wasn't suggesting he just replace a breaker panel on his own thats definatly not for the inexpeienced. But when a member posts trying to understand whats going on a little help goes a long way and simply saying call an electrician just seem like a smart ass remark to me. Anyone can throw money at a problem but an electrician is less likely to take advantage of him if he has an idea what is going on.

Problem is some people will dive into things they don't fully understand....Not saying anyone specificly would do this...just making the point that some people will.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Good point. I think it's important to share info on this board if I have it because I have learned so much. I belong to another board and some of the people there are idiots and respond with the most ridiculous repairs to cars it's a wonder they don't all ride the bus. I am amazed with the members here how did everyone find this board I'll never know!

Sure does. At an eye popping 6.00 per gallon.

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