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the living room went dark on Sunday and this morning one of the cats was playing behind the computer desk and hit the plug that runs into the outlet and the lights blinked.
I replaced the outlet with a new one and everything's in order but the old outlet was slightly burned on the inside edge where one of the wires connects to the outlet, a possible sign of something worse or nothing to be concerned about?
the living room went dark on Sunday and this morning one of the cats was playing behind the computer desk and hit the plug that runs into the outlet and the lights blinked.
I replaced the outlet with a new one and everything's in order but the old outlet was slightly burned on the inside edge where one of the wires connects to the outlet, a possible sign of something worse or nothing to be concerned about?
Kitty peeing on the outlets?
If you have aluminum wiring IN the house (not from the transformer to the house) then there might be an issue. An trusted electrician that I worked with a few years back (I'm not a licensed electrician but we worked together on a few projects with him in charge of all that good stuff and me pulling grunt work) told me in a private conversation that he had ripped out all the aluminum wiring in a home he owned, because he was that concerned about the aluminum wiring problem being a deadly fire hazard.
Not every system in a house will burn your home down around you when it does fail. As an Electrician myself, I would NEVER have my family live in a home with aluminum branch circuits. Too many problems, and too disastrous of an outcome when they do go bad for my tastes.
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