"Old Mac User" wrote in message
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On Feb 24, 4:02 pm, wrote:
Alright i'm just going to go ahead and establish the fact that i dont
know
anything about electric, so please keep the technical jargon to a
minimum. I'd appreciate it. Well okay the problem.

You see everytime i plug this heater in with another appliance the
outlet
doesn't work any more, or suddenly stops working. Well one day i had
the heater in with another appliace and it made half the outlets in
the
room unusable. Well i went down to the garage and turned off the
curcuits
breakers and cut them back on. When i went upstairs they still didn't
work
&& the lights dont seem to work either. The thing is though, non of
the lights
were on it was, the middle of the day their was no use for them. I
dont
understand why this is screwing up to much.

I know i probably need an electrician but i'd just like some people
who know
what they're doing to reassure me i do.

Yes, you need an electrician. This sounds like a grounding problem
and it can be very serious.


Electric heaters usually draw heavy current. If the circuit that the heater is
plugged into has a loose connection somewhere between the heater and the circuit
breaker, there will be significant voltage drop at the loose connection. The
insidious thing about that is that there will be considerable heat generated at
that point... likely sufficient heat to cause a fire.

Get an electrician pronto!!!

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Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters in the
address)

Some days you're the dog, some days the hydrant.