Where have all the powers gone, long time passing?

A somewhat interesting story. No advice needed, but I'll bet it's
forthcoming.

I always turn most of my radios on with the sleep switch, including
the bathroom radio. I pushed the button, 90 showed in the screen (90
minutes), but no sound came out. I adjusted the volume, pushed the up
and down station buttons, the preset station buttons. I turned it off
and on again, tried all the other buttoms, the AM-FM switch. Gave up.
Tried again 24 hours later. Couldn't unplug the radio so I unplugged
the whole mutliplug with the Powermid and the TV. Clock on radio
still kept time. 3 minutes to reset itself, plugged back in, worked
no better. I'm thinking it's probably broken.

8 hours after that, I turned the tv on, but it didnt' work either.

10 to 15 seconds to realize the GFI had tripped. Even though the 90
displayed in the screen when I pushed the sleep switch button.


House is 32 years old. I have one GFI breaker, with outlets in all 3
bathrooms and the kitchen (but not by the washing machine iirc) and
the outside outlets. With the outside, I leave an extension cord
plugged in and lying on the cement all year for thh last 15 years, and
for the last 7 of 8 years, a radio plugged into that and sitting under
the shadow of a wooden table/shelf, 4 inches above the cement.
Sometimes I have a 100' cord for the electric mower plugged in. If
that's why it tripped, it's the first time. I'll look a little
tomorrow and try to post again.

The first or second summer, the GFI worked for a few months, then
tripped every few days and I coudlnt' find the problem. I couldn't
believe a breaker had failed in only 4 years, but it had.

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:30:49 -0400, mm
wrote:

Where have all the powers gone, long time passing?

A somewhat interesting story. No advice needed, but I'll bet it's
forthcoming.

Well, I reset the GFI breaker and everything seems all right. The
clock had stopped displaying anything after one more day, but now it
does again and it still has the right time.

Even though the little red light that I thought meant the back-up
battery was depleted has been on for a year, the clock kept it's time
for 2.5 days.



I always turn most of my radios on with the sleep switch, including
the bathroom radio. I pushed the button, 90 showed in the screen (90
minutes), but no sound came out. I adjusted the volume, pushed the up
and down station buttons, the preset station buttons. I turned it off
and on again, tried all the other buttoms, the AM-FM switch. Gave up.
Tried again 24 hours later. Couldn't unplug the radio so I unplugged
the whole mutliplug with the Powermid and the TV. Clock on radio
still kept time. 3 minutes to reset itself, plugged back in, worked
no better. I'm thinking it's probably broken.

8 hours after that, I turned the tv on, but it didnt' work either.

10 to 15 seconds to realize the GFI had tripped. Even though the 90
displayed in the screen when I pushed the sleep switch button.


House is 32 years old. I have one GFI breaker, with outlets in all 3
bathrooms and the kitchen (but not by the washing machine iirc) and
the outside outlets. With the outside, I leave an extension cord
plugged in and lying on the cement all year for thh last 15 years, and
for the last 7 of 8 years, a radio plugged into that and sitting under
the shadow of a wooden table/shelf, 4 inches above the cement.
Sometimes I have a 100' cord for the electric mower plugged in. If
that's why it tripped, it's the first time. I'll look a little
tomorrow and try to post again.

The first or second summer, the GFI worked for a few months, then
tripped every few days and I coudlnt' find the problem. I couldn't
believe a breaker had failed in only 4 years, but it had.