last night jeremy took the busted air con to home depot and traded it for a new one. they didnt hassle him or anything so we were thinking great. this is working out well.
he gets home, and i help him install it (yeah i really did. although installation of a window unit in an apartment in la is a matter of lifting the thing in to the premade hole in the wall. but still. its shake and bake and i helped.) he turned it on and ahhh blessed cool air. we were watching the chiefs play the dolphins on monday night football on thursday nights (in what universe does that make sense i ask you) and the breaker blew. so we unplugged the tv from the same breaker as the air con, turned everything back on and watched the game.
the breaker blows again. we figure out the some of our small kitchen electrics are on the same breaker, even though they arent being used, so we unplug those and reset the thing. watch a couple more minutes of the game and...
it blows again.
this happened four or five mroe times and the guy downstairs (the apartment nmanager) comes upstairs to check on the new air con.
he wants to put a new plug type in the outlet that is specific to just the air con and so he does. we tried to explain to him that that is what blew up the other one because too much power is runnig through that circuit but he didnt listen. we get everything set up and test it on one of our little fans. it burns up the motor in the fan, but he still had us try the air con in the plug.
it ran for about five minutes before blowing up.
that was our third air con in four weeks.
it took forever to fall asleep last night as i was wallowing in a pool of my own sweat.
an electrician is supposedly going to come over tonight and fix it. we will see. im not holding my breath.
!m!
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