slim_boy_fat
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Last night, approx 1:30 am I'd been up to the toilet [as you do ] and returned to bed. Five minutes later....BANG! I tried the bedside light to see what the problem was - nothing. Alarm clock, phone cradle, electric blanket all dead.
Got up and reset one trip on the board which had 'thrown' and they came back but the side lights, phone, router, etc in the lounge were still out. "Strange" thinks I..... I finally tracked the problem to an 'power-surge' protected Ikea extension bar which seems to have given up the ghost. I have no idea what could have happened to cause it, as there were no appliances activated at or about the time to cause an overload .
It seems to be my week for electrical 'mishaps'. Earlier I introduced a grinder wearing a wire brush to a dust sheet and before I got a chance to turn it off, the magic smoke had made good its escape. Exit one grinder, stage left. Oh well...... That leaves me with only five grinders now....
Got up and reset one trip on the board which had 'thrown' and they came back but the side lights, phone, router, etc in the lounge were still out. "Strange" thinks I..... I finally tracked the problem to an 'power-surge' protected Ikea extension bar which seems to have given up the ghost. I have no idea what could have happened to cause it, as there were no appliances activated at or about the time to cause an overload .
It seems to be my week for electrical 'mishaps'. Earlier I introduced a grinder wearing a wire brush to a dust sheet and before I got a chance to turn it off, the magic smoke had made good its escape. Exit one grinder, stage left. Oh well...... That leaves me with only five grinders now....