Electricity shuts off in the whole house

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I have a seriously concerning and weird problem. When I just unplugged the ethernet cable - from my powered off PS3 - the power shut off in the whole house. After turning it back on, I did the same thing and nothing happened. I did it again and everything went off again.

I never had the problem before, regardless of often having unplugged this cable.
 
Thats some crazy **** there man! .. I'm pretty sure an RJ45 cable wont normally cause an electricity shutdown on a whole house? as it should be doing the dead switch in your electric box is kicking in and shutting down the supply as soon as it senses a power surge of some sort! maybe your pc is shorting somewhere? maybe you dont have any pegs under the motherboard and the back of the board is touching the metal casing? maybe the PS3 has the issue? dunno what to say here other than dont hook them together again until you solve the problem via someone who knows what they are doing .. dont want to see your PS3 going to the graveyard through trial and error :dopey:
Not much help but Good luck with it anyway 👍
 
I don't think it's my PC though. I remember touching the two screws that attach the network adapter for the PS2 and getting zapped, and it's the same cable that now goes in the PS3. Maybe it's an error with the cable, as it has been squeezed under doors etc :p... Anyway, my friend says his father has the same problem with his stationary PC

And thanks!
 
Get an electrician in to examine the wiring of the house. Doesn't sound right.

You have earthage in Denmark, don't you?
 
I'm not really sure. I think we have, but by far most of our wall sockets have 2 pins.

And yeah, it kinda worries me. Faulty wiring is not something you want in an old house - or a new one for that matter.
 
Man thats sounds really dangerous, I would seriously recommend getting an electrician in strait away! It maybe that there is a short circuit in your router that is tripping the house fuse...

I wouldnt use it at all until someone properly looks at it!

Robin
 
WiFi for the win? :lol:

Like everyone else has said, get an electrician in there. You shouldn't experiment yourself and risk frying something.
 
Have you had any new appliances fitted or repaired? Wouldn't take much for a new appliance to be dangerous. Seriously, get an electrician out asap, you don't screw about with electricity.
 
Bad ground..

Had the same issue in our last apartment - If I plugged the antenna cable into my TV Card in the computer, with the computer on, it killed the HFI relay. Nothing happened if I plugged it in while the computer was connected to another outlet..

I just stopped unplugging the antenna cable...
 
Flerbizky
Bad ground..

Had the same issue in our last apartment - If I plugged the antenna cable into my TV Card in the computer, with the computer on, it killed the HFI relay. Nothing happened if I plugged it in while the computer was connected to another outlet..

I just stopped unplugging the antenna cable...
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The wall sockets on our second floor do suck and need changing, so maybe you're right
 
The-BNA
Right. And I just switch it right back on, and everything still works fine.
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Bad ground indeed. If you have a regular multimeter, try measuring between ground in the sockets and eg. radiators - I'm guessing you'll find that "ground" sometimes means 110 Volts :D
 
Would that be 230 volts or something like that since we're in denmark? But do we have grounding in our sockets? And where?

(god, I'm a horrible electrician..)
 
The-BNA
Would that be 230 volts or something like that since we're in denmark? But do we have grounding in our sockets? And where?

(god, I'm a horrible electrician..)
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Not necessarily - Since you've have 2 phases with 115v - So it would actually be 115 and not 110. But then again, I'm old enough to remember when it WAS 220v coming out of the sockets :-P (I'm so old I'm actually listening to Volbeat on Vinyl while preparing New Years dinner)

But the measuring was more to display the faulty grounds in your house ;-)
 
Flerbizky
Not necessarily - Since you've have 2 phases with 115v - So it would actually be 115 and not 110. But then again, I'm old enough to remember when it WAS 220v coming out of the sockets :-P (I'm so old I'm actually listening to Volbeat on Vinyl while preparing New Years dinner)

But the measuring was more to display the faulty grounds in your house ;-)
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That sounds nice!

Is the grounds thing something I should get someone to look at?
 
The-BNA
That sounds nice!

Is the grounds thing something I should get someone to look at?
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Would probably be a good idea. I'm guessing a part of your house, say, the 1st. floor isn't actually properly grounded, which will create a false ground level which levels between the two phases coming out of your sockets. Your electric appliances do not care about this - but since you now have a 115v difference in ground levels between the 1st. floor and ground level (of the house) - then when you connect appliances which shares ground, say connect your ethernet cable on the 1st. floor (with 115v "ground") to a switch located on ground level (with 0v ground), you'll get said issues..
 
The-BNA
And yeah, it kinda worries me. Faulty wiring is not something you want in an old house - or a new one for that matter.
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And especially one with a PS3. ;) I agree with Eric. and Flerbizky: get the problem fixed sooner rather than later.
 

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