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The Daily Bucket. First a power outage killed my computer, now one has killed my furnace. [1]

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Date: 2023-04-06  

My new furnace, being installed October 2021, at my apartment. It's currently "dead".

March 30, 2023. A main power transmission line down in the Feather River Canyon (Plumas County, CA) develops a problem, the power goes out, it’s seven hours before repair can be completed. When the power does come back on, it does so at first only for a few seconds and trips back off, does this a second time, stays off for several minutes and then comes back on to stay. Each time the power came on briefly my furnace began its cycle but of course got interrupted. Looks like this has corrupted my furnace’s electronics because a couple of times after the power outage my furnace wasn’t working when I woke up in the morning. I cycled the thermostat and all seemed well until yesterday. My room temperature was dropping below 70f (I keep the thermostat set for about 74f). I had my apartment maintenance manager check it out; it’s broken now for certain. Repair tech won’t be here until tomorrow. In the meantime my apartment manager has loaned me this:

It’s small but it’s working sufficiently. My apartment is staying at about 72f out here in the front room. The bedrooms don’t get that warm, but it’s o.k. with blankets (about 67f in my bedroom).

Back in December 2021 we had another series of power outages which was, I believe, the proximate cause of the demise of my previous computer. I’m telling ya, we tend to take our electric power for granted. Hah! When it goes out you can see how critically dependent we are on electricity.

So, next time the power goes out what I’m going to do is flip my thermostat off in case the power isn’t restored fully right off the bat, and wait until it’s for sure going to stay on. A simple fix for an otherwise complex problem.

Oh, yeah. Boy am I glad I’m just renting and not buying. I’d hate it if I was a homeowner and this furnace problem repair was coming out of my own pocket.

Oh, and think what you otherwise may of PG&E, I gotta hand kudos to the folks who got the repair done so relatively quickly; it was a major job, the power was off for over seven hours. Sure, they’re employees and paid to do this job, but they’re still heroes in my book. That’s damn tough and dangerous work.

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