-------------------------------------
We recently bought a 30 year old home and it has developed an interesting electrical problem. There is one outlet in the basement that seems to control whether or not one side of the basement has power or not. If something (anything) is plugged into this outlet the outlets/lights have power. If we unplug from that outlet, so that there is nothing in it, and then turn on a light, it will flicker and that entire side of the basement loses power. As soon as we plug something into that outlet the power comes back to that side.
The only thing that I know of that has recently happened is that the outlet immediately to the right of the "controlling" outlet had a nightlight short circuit and begin to melt the light sensor. The "electrical fire" smell was very strong in that area. That's the only way we figured out where the problem was.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
##-----------------------------------------------## Delivered via