Re: Had a fun expensive Christmas!

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi David,

Do you remember the make of the breaker that was replaced?

Gerry R.



> Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Christmas was a bit more fun this year, when the lights in certain rooms
> started flickering and went black.  Lost the same leg of the 240
> again.  This time I called the electrician.  It wasn't the bad main
breaker
> that I thought was causing the problem, it was no power into the box!  The
> electrician went up to the meter and heard arcing!  After the power
company
> arrived and the meter removed, we found that one of the meter sockets was
> arcing between the cable attachment lug and the socket.  All is well now.
>
> While the electrician was there, I had him replace the stuck breaker in
the
> box also.  It took clamping the breaker in a vise and torquing it with a
> channel-lock to get it to move.  Surgery found that the contacts had
welded
> themselves together.  This breaker was the same that I had done most of my
> early coiling on.  I'm glad I didn't have a line short during any of that,
> or I could have wound up roasting marshmellows.
>
> Hope the rest of you all had a fun Christmas!
>
> David E Weiss
>
>