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Wife was complaining that my UPS in the garage kept making a clunking sound and then the lights would flicker.

So I went down and watched, and sure enough the lights would flicker and the UPS would clunk. Looking over the voltages I would see a 20v drop and then it would come back. I happen to have a UPS on the 2nd leg of our box so I watched that one, and the voltage never shifted.

Turned off the breaker box, pulled the cover, pulled the breaker in question. boom, clearly it was a corroded contact causing higher resistance, and heat, and causing brownouts.

$8 later were back up and running, and I can sleep safer knowing at least THAT breaker is not going to start a fire.

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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

If one breaker is that corroded, what about the rest?

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago

I spot checked a few, and they looked fine but I had the same thought. Realistically though if I cant get working in the next week I am going to have to sell the house anyway so this fix was just so it wont burn down right away.

[-] Cursed_Fig@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That's called "extent of conditon"

this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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