Electrical Problem in one room of the house?

Question

I have been having a problem with electricity in one room of my house. An electrician recently installed a ceiling fan/light fixture in the middle of the room. Before the fan was in the room there were several outlets and one light switch (there was no ceiling fixture yet!). The light switch controlled one of the outlets. One breaker is assigned to this room in my electrical box, and it has never tripped.

Now the light switch works the fan/light fixture...I'm not sure if it still works the outlet (can't even test it now). The problems I am about to describe did not come immediately with the addition of the ceiling fan. Everything was working fine for a couple of weeks before I started seeing problems.

However recently when I walk into the room and flick the light switch on the light will do a series of quick blinks and stay off...or sometimes on. I can't really tell why this is happening. I noticed all of the outlets in the room are affected too. Any lights or appliance plugged into an outlet will turn off or blink consistent with the ceiling light. I don't even need to mess with the light switch to make this happen. Anything plugged into a wall outlet will act this way. It seems everything on the one breaker is messed up.

I am no electrician but a battery backup unit was plugged into my computer which was off one of the outlets in question. Apparently the battery in in the unit went bad, and this was wreaking havoc with my electrical system (the unit kept trying to click off and on, and recharge the battery). I thought this destroyed the outlet. I replaced the outlet that the computer was plugged into and the light switch....Negative results.

Could my problem be a bad breaker, or bad connection somewhere. I checked the fans connections and everything looks good. I did have an electrician install everything. Thanks for any answers.

Answer 1

It is possible that too much power is being used on that circuit. The same thing happened to me when I had a couple appliances turned on at the same time in one room. Try Plugging your computer and any other extra electrical items (like mp3 player and clothes iron) into a different room/circuit and see if that fixes it. Oh, and reset the breaker.



If not, some wires could be crossed or damaged and you would want to call the electrician to check it out.



Good luck :)

Answer 2

Sounds like a loose connection could be either a white or black wire, I would trace out the whole circuit go from box to box in the order it was wired if you can figure that out, starting at the fuse box with a meter with someone flipping the switch just to make the problem show up as the meter will show a drop in voltage too.. the problem is probably what ever the electrician messed with so maybe he would come back for free or you could look wherever he worked and wiggle wires with power off to find it first.

Answer 3

From What it sounds like, it is probably a bad connection where the line comes into the room. if I had to guess the power for the room comes into the switch box, or the box that had the switched outlet in it. I would assume a bad connection in either of those places. maybe even the panel.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Replace the light switch, they don`t last for ever. this things happens when they go bad, and most probable the light switch is still connected to the wall outlet