How can you tell if a technician drilled a hole into an important electrical wire? Ever since I got satellite installed, the power in my house has been strange, and it is making me nervous. (
Follow the wires he installed and see if it could be near any house wires but only if it was near the incoming power wires because you said the whole house was affected not just one circuit
Well, as sorry as I am to say this, The power in my house has been strange, really doesn't give us much to work on. More info would be extremely helpful, like what strange means, and just how it's acting, when it does it's little tricks and then when it straightens out. You can post them as edits, on the bottom of the question page.
First you have to look at where the hole was drilled, and you haven't stated where in the home. Is there a cable antenna jack, recepticals (outlets), light switches that something is plugged into that is acting weird. You may have a circuit overload meaning that when something that uses up alot of electrical current like an air conditioner, vaccum, microwave, hair dryer etc.is used in an electrical circuit, the lights in the circuit might suddenly turn off and on real quick, meaning that alot of the current in a circuit connecting your recepticals, switches and antenna might overload. I'm guessing your lights are dimming on and off real quick. This is normal, but based on the wireing in the circuit you don't want to add other appliances that use a lot of electricity. Anything with a lot of watts, btu, or regular appliances like a big screen tv. You probabily have 120 volt circuit with this problem your haveing. Check your electrical main panel or service panel. If you use fuses than check to see if the glass fuses have any black burnt residue on them, this is an overload, meaning that the fuse in the circuit saved your house of catching on fire. When replaceing always get a fuse with the same level of amperes rating as the old one. Bring the fuse into a store and they'll help you further. If your panel uses breakers and it has tripped, than turn the circuit off than on. In conclusion I think your circuit for I'm guessing your living room is useing alot of electricity. Don't plug in powerful products near or around your satelite system.
If he drilled into an important wire(actually, all electrical wires are important), then he would have seen some sparks at the time, most likely, the circuit breaker probably would have tripped, and it's more than likely that part of your wiring wouldn't be working at all. 5 inches which way from an outlet? Electrical wires run in pretty predictable places in most homes, partly to minimize people drilling into them by accident, and these guys do this stuff all day long. They get to know where wires are and if they're smart they have gadgets to tell them where wires are before they drill. What's happened to your electrical stuff sounds like something else entirely
