re: #42 A Cranky One

There are two 110V lines that come into a house, that are out of phase. One goes to one side of the breaker panel and the other goes to the other side. You probably lost one of the lines, so only half the breaker panel is energized.

Yep. That’s what I figured. Just never had that happen. Usually the whole panel is out if there is any kind of an outage.

As I mentioned up above, AEP was out a month or so ago because there was flickering going on. Never went all the way out, but it would sometimes flash the lights or trigger some of the more sensitive circuits like computers, TV, etc. off and back on quickly. Same transformer they are replacing now. Same circuits in my house and neighbors.