[sdiy] weird power outages, help

[Harry Bissell Jr]

No fuses blown suggests that there is a loose
connection that is going open. I'd open all the wall 
outlets and look for loose wiring.

Be sure you don't have aluminum house wiring... they
have problems with age if they are not used with
special outlets.

Its remotely possible that the circuit breaker is
going bad... but my first guess would be a loose
wire.

H^) harry

--- Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:

> something really trippy is happening with the power
> in my room and 
> i'm wondering whether the assembled experts here can
> help.
> 
> within the last week i've had 3 periods the lights
> get flickery and 
> the power drops for about 1/2 second then comes
> back. this will 
> happen maybe 5 or 6 times before things go back to
> normal. the other 
> parts of the house are fine, and no fuses get
> tripped.
> 
> there's 2 power outlets in my room and i'm unsure
> about the grounding 
> situation (though, in 3 years of living here, i've
> not had any power 
> problems at all). when the power goes, it takes out
> both outlets - i 
> think they're on the same circuit. it also takes out
> the ceiling 
> light, maybe that's on the same circuit too.
> 
> i have a couple of "protected" power strips, could
> they be the ones 
> freaking out? so far i've not managed to watch one
> of the strips 
> during an outage, so i don't know whether it drops
> its "protected" 
> light or anything during.
> 
> i've just had 3 outages within a few minutes of each
> other. here's 
> what i had powered up at the time -
> 
> - mackie mixer
> - powered monitors
> - audio interface
> - midi interface
> - 2 laptops
> - 3 firewire drives (which were *not* happy)
> - CDR drive
> - angle-poise lamp
> - soldering iron
> 
> this is a good chunk *less* than what is usually
> switched on. the 
> modular, which i would suspect as it has a good
> chunk of my wiring in 
> it :-) is currently off.
> 
> thanks for any help with this one.
> 
> j
>