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Hot tub installaion part 3
Sorry for the length of this tale. I have tried to make it as short as possible. This is the last part.
As night fell upon Savannah, the stars were out in force. Mrs. CXXC and I could enjoy gazing at them in our new hot tub. I would brag to her just how much I saved and just how much effort I had put inot it. We ate our steaks, drank our drinks. I wanted to check the temp so went to the tub, lifted the lid, saw that it was 85 degrees and felt such accomplishment. I pushed the buttons to turn the pumps on to see if there would be a surprise dislodged frog. The pups jumped to action. Bubbles and jets streamed perfectly.
Then EVERYTHING went black. The pumps died. The lights went out. Nothing was working. I pressed buttons frantically. Nothing happened. I went to the disconnect. The GFCI breaker had not tripped. I flipped it off and then on. Nothing happened. I went to the main breaker box. I flipped the 50 amp breaker. Again nothing happened. The tub was dead! Did I blow both pumps? Did the control pannel blow out? What happened. I really couldn’t see much in the dark, so I went into the house to get a flash light. It was then that I realized, the ENTIRE house was black.
Had I just wipped out the whole house? I ran back to the main breaker box. I flipped the main breaker for the house. Off, on, off, on. Nothing! I whent in and tried individual breakers to see if something was causing issues. Nothing! I picked up my cell and called my Bro-in-law. He had left just before dinner. He knew I had a little volt meter in my tool drawer. He instructed me on what to set it at and where to tap test this section or that on the breaker box. Nothing was working. I was certain that I had fried my home with the addition of the hot tub.
As I stood there in the dark, head lamp affixed to my head, trying to get a reading from the meter, I began to sweat. I was going to fork out WHO KNOWS WHAT to fix the power to my hose. Good thing I got the hot tub so cheap.
Bro-in-law asked me to touch the two poles of the incoming power to the house with the leads from the meter. Expecting to be electorcute and to see fireworks as I KNEW I would cross the connection somehow, I moved very slowly and steadily.
“What does the meter read?” He asked.
“I cant tell, my light is on the leads and the meter is not back lit” I explain. “Hang on, let me hold the meter up to the window, so the kitchen light will shine on it.”
“112” I announce.
“Ummm’, he says.
“WHAT?“ I yelp! “Is that Bad? What did I do? Did we connect somehting wrong?”
“No,” He started to laugh. “Can you see the readout from the kitchen light?”
“Yes. I told you it said 110.” I snapped.
“You can see this? By using the KITCHEN LIGHT”, he enunciated.
“YES!” I barked. “What is wrong?
In a giggling voice he informes me, “You have power!”
“I do?”
“ HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Look in your kitchen. If there is a light, you have power!” he informed.
DOH!
“Thanks.”, I hung up. I turned the GFCI breaker back on and sure enough, I had my hot tub and I got it so cheap!
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