"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 5/7/2008 7:03 PM Mikko Peltoniemi spake thus:

Actually, it turned out to be a bad connection next to the GFI outlet,
which was still working. Who would've known that all the power to
my computers was actually going through the bathroom...

When you have the electrician come over, you might want to have them fix
that situation. I had a customer with a similar situation; their bathroom
outlet went out, along with the lights in their garage. Turned out to be a
GFCI outlet in the outside of the garage with all those things wired
downstream of it, which made no sense.

Actually, it makes perfect sense. Depending upon the date when the house was
built, and the electric codes at that time. The most economical (cheap)
method of wiring the required GFCI protected outlets was to run the fewest
required circuits, to the fewest required GFCI devices. Kitchen circuits,
when first required were within 6 foot of the sink, and 20 amp, but most
other circuits were general lighting circuits, so it was common to find the
required GFCI outlet in the garage, next to the breaker panel feeding the
outside outlets and all the bathroom outlets, and if the circuit wasn't to
taxed, it may feed a few more lights or outlets

It's a very simple fix.


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