securespark said:
If it was the case that someone else could help, surely your post would have read "I don't know but someone else will come along who might."
Fair comment, but the trouble is, no one here (yet) is qualified* to give a definative answer to an American regarding electrical diy.
Unfortunately when electrics out side the UK was suggested, this "problem" wasn't thought of
taken from "welcome to the forum"
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 19:31 Post Subject:
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i just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to diynot team for changing the elctrics to U.K. Electrics, hopefully this will stop too much confusion
There were questions being posted regarding electrics from all over the world, people would give their replies, which then turned out to be of no use , as the poster would be in say, America, or Canada (as mentioned previously local codes etc) but they wouldn't say that when asking the question
Then the Outside uk electrics forum was born,but as i said no one here is trully qualified to answer (if you are please make your self Known, as i also mentioned Yankey sparkey, although not qualified knows more than us regarding American electrical)
Also I have been posting the reply "...........and please try XXXXX" for some time, but only after a few days if no one replies. My thinking is to let them know the post is being read, just that we do not know the correct answer (its better than ignoring them altogether)
In general, although there is as you said "no hope" of helping others from outside the uk regarding electrical, by having a "electrics out side the UK" forum it STOPS confusing questions, although i beleive that was not the origonal idea, i believe the DIYnot team were hoping some one like yankey sparkey would stay, (helping in Electrics out side the UK but alas he didnt
If you sit and watch these forums for as long as i have (sad i know) you get to "feel" what is happening,
Any one is free to submit any suggestions they like, that is why we have the car forums
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paulh53
Joined: 24 Dec 2003
Posts: 91
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 02:25 Post Subject:
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How About a Car Maintenance Section, Maybe This Would Treble Your "Users"
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and some one waved their magic wand and a car forum appeared
* by qualified i mean have it in writing, acording to the American requirements
Recently, we had some hot humid days and I turned on the A/C in my house to cool it a little. Sometimes, such as night when we are sleeping, it appears when the A/C shuts off, it also shuts off power to most of my house. No breakers have popped, and at least one of the breakers is still getting normal power as my two back bedrooms and the exterior lights still work. No amount of resetting breakers causes the power to come back on. However, I accidentally discovered that dropping the temp on the thermostat to cause the A/C to kick on also causes the power to return. I had an electrician out to test everything and he checked the power lines from the utility company transformer all the way inside and couldn't find anything. He's as puzzled as I am. Has anybody had a similar problem and how were you able to fix it? 
