We had a 3 hour power cut last night and afterward I discovered half of my apartment's outlets were dead. I flipped through the circuit breakers to no avail. I called maintenance and the woman who answered the phone said the utility said one of the phases didn't come on and they were working on it.
So- why don't I have a uniform problem throughout the apartment? The refrigerator, stove, modem, laptop charger, and glass tube TV work perfectly. The florescent lights fixtures are dead but the compact florescent bulbs work.
I'm going to throw a few more details in-
A 4V LED light with in line transformer strobes when plugged into a "dead" outlet, works fine on a good one.
And I live in a 100 unit building built in 1974 (Concord NH) and have no idea if the power supply to the building is single or three phase.
So- why don't I have a uniform problem throughout the apartment? The refrigerator, stove, modem, laptop charger, and glass tube TV work perfectly. The florescent lights fixtures are dead but the compact florescent bulbs work.
I'm going to throw a few more details in-
A 4V LED light with in line transformer strobes when plugged into a "dead" outlet, works fine on a good one.
And I live in a 100 unit building built in 1974 (Concord NH) and have no idea if the power supply to the building is single or three phase.