{"id":129194,"date":"2026-02-04T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=129194"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:08:31","slug":"wednesday-night-breaker-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/02\/04\/wednesday-night-breaker-breaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night \u2013 breaker, breaker !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.. We\u2019ve been battling a pretty serious electrical problem in the house. The lights in the downstairs bathroom, , the furnace room, the fridge and the outside back door light have been flickering for a few months.. now they\u2019ve gone out completely. I\u2019ve been meaning to debug it, but today, the lights stopped working completely.. <br \/><br \/>Unfortunately, that makes it pretty hard to find out what breaker to turn off to identify the \u00a0problem and safely fix it.. .. The alternative is to shut of the whole house.. but that still doesn\u2019t tell us what \u00a0breaker its on<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a story of its own. <br \/><br \/>We\u2019e been living here for over 44 years.. and we\u2019ve never had a complete map of the breakers.. SSome are labeled, some are not.. and to make thigs mode mysterious, 2 more breaker boxes were added during our renovations in 1995. One in the basement.. and one in the barn.. and.. believe it or not, none of them are reliably labeled What I mean by \u2019reliably labeled\u2019 is that some.. actually many of the preachers have labels.. but many are scratched off or duplicated.. and many more are not labeled at all.. They\u2019ve always been a mystery\u2026 (I know it sounds lame to imply that the previous owners .. or their.. or for that matter our .. electricians did something wrong when that was 45 years ago\u2026 but.. that\u2019s the situation a<br \/><br \/>as we\u2019ve fixed stuff, we\u2019ve added our own <br \/><br \/>labels.. but its still not complete. <br \/><br \/>anyway.. back to the issue at hand.. today we started to label all the breakers by turning them off one at a time and looking for what switched off.. in the hopes that we could complete the labeling.. and hopefully identify our faulty mystery circuit\u2026<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image1_11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image2_11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"746\" height=\"559\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image3_5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image4_5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>while we did get much of the house (finally) labeled.. we were not able to locate our culprit.. still t was a fun way to spend an hour before work !<br \/><br \/>not as much fun as it sounds<\/p>\n<p>nite all. Nite sam-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Yikes.. We\u2019ve been battling a pretty serious electrical problem in the house. The lights in the downstairs bathroom, , the furnace room, the fridge and the outside back door light have been flickering for a few months.. now they\u2019ve gone out completely. I\u2019ve been meaning to debug it, but today, the lights stopped working &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/02\/04\/wednesday-night-breaker-breaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night \u2013 breaker, breaker !<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129197,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129194\/revisions\/129197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}