This morning I got up and one half of the apartment doesn’t work. The kitchen disposal, the bathroom light and the kitchen and dining room lights. I checked the stove to see if it worked and when I turned a burner on, all the lights came on. Nothing like this has ever happened before. What in the world is it?
I think I’d be able to tell if the the breaker was tripped…..ugh… any real answers that don’t insult my intelligence?
I don’t have GFCI receptacles but the landlord does think it’s the neutral.
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Call the maintenance electrician for your residence. Someplace in the system the neutral is open. It is on the branch circuit that provides power to the lights and bathroom. The clue here is that when you turned the stove on you got the lights to work. This provided a completed circuit through the range. Do not use any electronic devices until the problem is fixed, it does burn out electronics when this problem develops. Just on the off chance that someplace the wiring is wrong, push the test and reset buttons on the GFCI repeptacles in the bathroom and the kitchen.
you may have tripped a circuit breaker that controls that part of the apartment
Don’t worry, Everything is fine now. Your apartment is Ok.
You need an electrician NOW.
Power comes to your breaker box on two wires, each carrying 120 volts. Most of your outlets and lights will use one or the other. Your stove is 240 volts which uses both of these at the same time.
One of the two wires is loose or one side of the main breaker has a fault. Items that use one of the two 120 volt feeds work, the items that use the other do not. The real indicator of this is the fact that when you turn the stove on the lights come on. This means that power is feeding from the good connection, through your stove and energizing the other side of the box that is not receiving power from the utility.
You need to get this corrected soon. Contact your maintenance person. In the mean time, don’t turn on the stove and limit use of other electrical items. I would turn everything off.
You only paid half of your electric bill.
i would contact the land lord to have the problem fixed since it is his obligation.