this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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This particular outlet was switched, and whenever I would flip the switch to ON I would hear a humming for a few seconds and then the circuit breaker would pop. The seller told me the tenant had a CNC router or something of that nature plugged into the outlet and apparently that worked without tripping the breaker. I have no idea, maybe the dude wired up the polarity wrong or something. I deleted the whole outlet (along with the wall it was in) and the rest of the outlets and lights on the circuit are working normally, so I'll never know what the exact problem was.
Yeah. That’s really bad. It sounds like it was grounding out or something equally terrible. The device probably had something capable of moderating the draw, but it was basically like electricity was escaping places it should not have been going.
Yeah, and for bonus points it was all with 80-year-old wiring.