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Any electrician will warn you to first locate and flip the house's CAUSALITY circuit breaker before touching the CIRCUIT BREAKERS one.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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I have two outlets in my apartment that do not power down with any breakers.
I have to pull my main breaker for those two outlets to be without power.
And I have the full schematics for the wiring in my place.
And it's not that they show these outlets should be wired to a specific plug either.
The schematics don't show those two outlets at all :|
Even weirder, I have a digital power meter that autoreports my usage to the power company and has a reporting port that I feed into my Grafana installation that reports down to the milisecond.
When I power things through one of these outlets, it shows fuck all increase in power consumption on the meter.
So, one of the two outlets seems to be drawing power from either another apartment OR the buildings main grid that runs the utilities and halway lighting etc.
If your main breaker disconnects those outlets, they aren't drawing power directly from anything but your panel.
Yeah, except for one of them, it literally isn't drawing power from my panel.
I put a 1000W test load on it and my meter showed no deviation of the load what so ever.
On the other outlet and every other outlet in the apartment, it does.
And as I already said/acknowledged, the only way that can happen is if there's a relay or similar switching method being driven by my power that switches power coming from somewhere else.