Help! AC Blew 7 outlets!
Dear Brownstoners, Need your help. Was switching my living room AC from high cool to low cool and it blew out 7 of my outlets in the living room and bedroom including the switches for my two ceiling fans. Checked the box and was hoping it was just a short circuit but all the buttons…
Dear Brownstoners,
Need your help. Was switching my living room AC from high cool to low cool and it blew out 7 of my outlets in the living room and bedroom including the switches for my two ceiling fans. Checked the box and was hoping it was just a short circuit but all the buttons are still switched to “on” except for the bedroom button which is stuck in the middle.
I’m going to try and get an electrician in here despite the holiday but was hoping that someone on the site might “diagnose” the problem so I don’t end up getting ripped off if in fact it’s something simple. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Thanks and hope everyone’s enjoying the long weekend!
you have too many appliances on one circuit! is your a/c a window mount or through wall sleeve mount. normally a/c require a dedicated circuit.
You just need to move the switch stuck in the middle to the off position (opposite of all the others) and just switch it back to the on position. Then you need to get an electrician to look at your wiring. You obviously don’t have wiring to handle the heavy draw of an Air Conditioner in that room. Call Ceriello Electric. They are liscensed and fairly priced.
thanks all flipping all the breakers off and then on worked. I GREATLY appreciate it. Happy Labor Day!
flip all your breakers to the full off position, and then back to the on position…if that does not work, make sure that one leg of your main breaker is not tripped
When you say buttons, I’m assuming that you mean the breaker switch? Did you switch the breaker off first and then back on? Sorry if you know this already, but when a breaker trips, you have to flip the switch to “off” to reset the breaker. If yours is stuck in that sort of no-mans land, not completely off, not completely on, it sounds like it tripped and needs to be reset. If you have a short, when you flip it to on again it will automatically trip again and you’ll actually feel a little bit of resistance in the switch. Don’t keep trying to turn it on if if keeps tripping, you have a short somewhere and you can start a fire if you hold the breaker in the on position.