Edit: I was not expecting a sticky and such an outpouring of support. I've decided to try and find an electrician after much suggestion. Thank you for the love and support. You guys are awesome!
Weird question.
My fusebox is in my basement, where I've pretty much stocked up for Armageddon. I'm wary of letting an electrician into my home to install fuses and switches for my power generator so I'm thinking about doing the install myself.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to assist or provide a step by step with my set up?
Thank you
Yea the breaker isnt tripping at all, just no power to a room in a 4 bedroom house. No other room affected.. no power to all outlets in that one room. Breaker never tripped really, I just noticed one day it lost power. I have tried resetting entire panel to no avail. Could me using excess power in another room cause this?
Ive seen utility company workers at my electrical box outside and noticed they put the new smart home shit on it. Nothing I can do about that.
You probably have a GFCI outlet that feeds that room. If your breaker hasn't tripped and there is no power to the outlets in that room, there is probably one GFCI outlet up stream that has tripped and has cut off all the outlets downstream. Check for a GFCI outlet that needs to be reset. GFCI outlets can and do go bad, so it may need to be replaced.
I have seen this with a Ground Fault that tripped in my Garage.
I would strongly suggest looking into this, as this could be a very bad thing. You have 20 Amps at 120 Vac (2,400 Watts of power) going "somewhere" and you don't know where, or how it's ending. It could be something as innocuous as a wire nut that came loose. Or, it could be a wire that has been somehow cut, and may be intermittently sparking - and set your home on fire.
It could be a lose wire at the fuse box, but this is something I would dig into. Uncontrolled power is a disaster waiting to happen.
Embarrassed to admit this but it was an unplugged smoke detector that was the culprit :/ issue fixed after 4 months
Nothing to be embarrassed about. Power flowing, and accounted for. That's much better than an unknown sparking behind drywall, just waiting to set a 2x4 aflame.