Had a weird thing happen at the repair shop in the old mall downtown

I was fixing a Samsung TV from 2015, just a simple capacitor swap, and the whole main board just went dark when I powered it on. Turns out the outlet in that back room had a bad neutral, my meter read like 90 volts. I mean, I spent an hour checking my work before I even thought to check the wall. Anyone else run into voltage issues in older buildings messing with repairs?

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elliots492mo ago

Oh man, that's the worst. It feels like so much of our infrastructure is just held together with old wiring and hope these days.

reese_lane292mo ago

My old apartment had a fuse box from the 1950s that would hum when it rained.

palmer.ryan9d ago

Whoa, hold up there... @elliots49 I get what you're saying about infrastructure being old, but humming in the rain? That's not exactly the end of the world. Those old fuse boxes are pretty simple beasts, honestly. A little moisture in the air making a contact vibrate isn't the same as a ticking time bomb. Probably just needed a good dusting and a newer cover plate or something.