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When I got there this year, the outlet cover on the generator was missing. My guess is that someone broke it when they discovered that the genius that wired the outlets onto the generator wired them wrong, or it caught fire at some point and melted the plate. My CFL bulb did not blow this year and there was no arcing when I plugged things in!
The warning sign should have been that all those things happened at the same time last year.
The bad thing about it was - that it was raining and there was at least one inch of water everywhere on the ground last year.
Not the best time to be playing around with electricity.
Maybe something was shorting out or was miswired - my guess is that the two pronged plugs were reversed and it tripped the breaker on the power supply when the ground fought against the hot.. But I didn't complain too loud, else they might have told me to get lost... If you read what I previously wrote, they had these MFJ power meters on all of the power strips.
http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-DM55-1

<blockquote data-quote="Soup-man" data-source="post: 556061" data-attributes="member: 47632">When I got there this year, the outlet cover on the generator was missing.&nbsp; My guess is that someone broke it when they discovered that the genius that wired the outlets onto the generator wired them wrong, or it caught fire at some point and melted the plate.&nbsp; My CFL bulb did not blow this year and there was no arcing when I plugged things in!The warning sign should have been that all those things happened at the same time last year.The bad thing about it was - that it was raining and there was at least one inch of water everywhere on the ground last year.Not the best time to be playing around with electricity.Maybe something was shorting out or was miswired - my guess is that the two pronged plugs were reversed and it tripped the breaker on the power supply when the ground fought against the hot..&nbsp; But I didn&#039;t complain too loud, else they might have told me to get lost...&nbsp; If you read what I previously wrote, they had these MFJ power meters on all of the power strips.<a href="http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-DM55-1" target="_blank">http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-DM55-1</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Soup-man, post: 556061, member: 47632"] When I got there this year, the outlet cover on the generator was missing. My guess is that someone broke it when they discovered that the genius that wired the outlets onto the generator wired them wrong, or it caught fire at some point and melted the plate. My CFL bulb did not blow this year and there was no arcing when I plugged things in! The warning sign should have been that all those things happened at the same time last year. The bad thing about it was - that it was raining and there was at least one inch of water everywhere on the ground last year. Not the best time to be playing around with electricity. Maybe something was shorting out or was miswired - my guess is that the two pronged plugs were reversed and it tripped the breaker on the power supply when the ground fought against the hot.. But I didn't complain too loud, else they might have told me to get lost... If you read what I previously wrote, they had these MFJ power meters on all of the power strips. [URL]http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-DM55-1[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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