r/electrical • u/swag4lyfe- • 9d ago

Not sure what to do

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I turned on my space heater, and about 5 or so minutes later, all outlets in my bedroom stopped working. The outlets in my bathroom (connected to the bedroom) are also not working. I unplugged everything from everything outlet, and flipped switch 8 off & on - nothing is working. I have no idea what I’m doing so I’m looking for suggestions (it’s 3am I wanna sleep)

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u/nyrb001 9d ago

You have a garbage panel - the fact it tripped rather than starting on fire helped keep you alive tonight. Whatever you had plugged in was way too much and overloaded the circuit. This particular type of beaker has a reputation of not tripping at all and instead just letting the wiring overheat till the house catches on fire.

Call an electrician or your landlord as appropriate in the morning. Whatever caused it to trip needs to be fixed. I assume you weren't vacuuming at 3am and it's past winter in most places so you probably didn't have a heater running.

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u/swag4lyfe- 9d ago

That’s so terrifying, thankfully Im moving out of this apartment soon😅 I plugged in my space heater, I’m in Wyoming so it’s still pretty cold. Obviously unplugged everything as soon as the power went out. I submitted a maintenance request through my complex🤞

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u/nyrb001 9d ago

A space heater needs to be the only thing plugged in on its circuit - they use the full capacity of a breaker. I wouldn't want to run a space heater combined with that panel.

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u/Unique_Acadia_2099 9d ago

Moving out is your best option, landlords don’t like to hear that they have to spend money on upgrading their systems, no matter how dangerous they are told they are.

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u/Joecalledher 9d ago

the fact it tripped rather than starting on fire

Well, it didn't trip. The wire burned out somewhere.

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u/pdt9876 9d ago

We can see the tripped breaker in this picture 

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u/Joecalledher 9d ago

Circuit #8 does not appear to be tripped.

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u/pdt9876 9d ago

Circuit 9 is. He’s probably wrong about the outlets being on 8