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Anonymous-0 · Jun 7, 2010

Got home yesterday late afternoon and everything worked fine, water pump,clothes dryer, stove, fridge About 7pm noticed there was no water pressure, checked the breakers in the panel all was good. Checked the dryer as it was running and no heat but drum was turning.Turned the burners on the stove and nothing. Also fidge motor was not coming on just the defrost fan. Went to the pole and each leg had 120v. The micro wave would come on for 2 or 3 seconds then shut off. It's pluged into a double outlet,i put the probes in the empty outlet and turned the microwave on and the voltage dropped to 96v. Any ideas out there?

evilboweivel · Jun 7, 2010

sounds like you lost one leg coming in
should have 240vac betwen two hot legs and 120vac to nuetral
Good luck

Ron

Anonymous-0 · Jun 7, 2010

bad connection doesnt show up until you have a load happened to me it was a loose split bolt on my overhead connection meter to house

Errin OH · Jun 7, 2010

Start checking every connection between the pole and the outlet.

If your lucky it will be a loose connecton in a box somewhere.

If you like me, it will be a corroded line somewhere under ground. BTDT

Plane Bart · Jun 7, 2010

Call your power company you have either lost a Phase or you have a loose neutral connection.
Do not use any 240 volt appliances, Stove, range, Clothes Dryer, Air Cond, Heat, shut off breaker for the water heater if it is electric, what will happen if you have lost a phase it will feed the elements of the dryer ETC to complete the circuit but will cause damage if there is allot of load.
Other causes with out knowing more about your house could be.
Loose netral or phase conductor at the Main Breaker/ Fuse
if you call the power company first and its thier problem should be no charge to you from the pole to the meter anyway.
I f you call an Electrician and he finds it's a power company issue you still have to pay him for his time.
I do not reccomend that inexperianced people do electrical work, always get a licensed electrician for any thing more than changeing lights and receptacles.
Hope it is a power company issue for you so its no cost.
Good Luck.
Bart
Master Electrician VA/ MD/ West VA.

Geo-TH,In · Jun 7, 2010

If your dryer works and produces heat on hi heat, then you have 240vac and had a good neutral. Because the hi heating elements work on 240 vac and the motor works on 120 vac. If you have an issue with the neutral wire, then your two 120 vac legs will run wild, depending on that you have turned on. You don't need a neutral to run a 240 vac water pump, however if your pump is 120 vac, and it stopped working, my guess is you have a neutral problem. Over the years, I've had 2 neutral problems, both caused by a tree branch falling on the power lines and breaking the neutral wire. The last time that happened, the wild 120 vac took out the garage opener, the timer clock on the oven, and dishwasher. Purchased a surge supressor from the power company to prevent future problems. LOL

Anonymous-0 · Jun 8, 2010

It's fixed. The wire comes from a pole across the road to my pole, down the pole to a meter then to a box right below the meter. In this box is a master switch with 2 120v outlets which go to the garage, the wire continues to the house under ground to the panel in the cellar. Where the wire goes into the meter box was leaking water and it went down in the lower box into master switch and corroded one side causing the problem. It probably had been leaking for quite awhile.

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