This was a disastrous weekend, electrically speaking. Fortunately, it was only a disaster and not a catastrophe.
It started on Friday when Sarah's car wouldn't. (Preliminary diagnosis: dead battery)
It continued as we were napping on Saturday: we heard a noise from our living room and the air conditioner turned off. After flipping the circuit breaker back on several times to try to locate the short, Sarah noticed the scent of an electrical fire and we were able to track it down to a dead power strip. Something inside had blown up and the wires were smoldering and melting the plastic. Fortunately it had not yet started to smoke or burn (Yay circuit breakers!)
Finally, our recently installed motion sensor light doesn't. One of the two just stays on all of the time. It looks like the internal electronic switch is toasted.
Sigh....
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