Comment Re:LOL ... (Score 1) 367
That actually happened to me. I am not an electrician, but I know something about household AC power. One morning some of the power in my house was out, some wasn't. I checked the feed lines going to the main dual breakers - only one line was "hot", the other was dead. I called my city-owned power company, and like the ignoramuses they were, they told me to call an electrician, on my $. I insisted they come out and check their own wiring up to the point where it became MY wiring, since there was very, very little on my end that could have caused such a problem. So they did. Sure enough, one of the 3 crimps connecting the city's wiring to my house had failed & opened one leg of my 220V feed. Their excuse was that the last time the house had its wiring worked on (decades before the problem developed) they had used temporary crimps which were supposed to have been replaced with permanent ones - but never were. so the city replaced all 3 crimps (a few decades late) and immediately restored my power - at no cost to me. Had I followed their suggestion, I would have wasted my money on an electrician, who would have wound up having the same discussion with the city that I did.
