Please help! Electrical mayhem in apartment!

Hey guys so everything was going great, but needed more juice in my grow room! So i had a CAP mlc-4xt and decided to hard wire it to the fuse box inside my apartment. There was no main fuse breaker though for like the entire box. So i tried to work on it as it was. i think that was a mistake. they are all in the on position, but only some of the previous breakers that were there are now working. like my whole kitchen is down. and some of the rooms etc. please help me! I have a maintenance/mexican worker who lives on teh premises and i have a landlord who is pretty cool but not cool enough for me to have a grow i do not believe. so i am hoping you can all tell me i am not FACKED and have to have them come in and fix this shit like for real. a 420 friendly electrician in the los angeles area? i dont know! help!!!

yeah you may just be facked. better let the mexican fix it.

what kind of things can be done on his end?

i was thinking a main breaker panel like for the complex or something? but wouldn't all of the things in my house be not working?

You must have tripped a breaker in a box one level back. Your apt. MUST have a main breaker, and probably some subsidiaries in that box. Maybe your neighbors can help you find it without need of letting them into your space. cn

Why get someone to fix it when you have the internet. Do some research on how to safely test it. Like all the fuses and shit

You have disconnected one leg. Probably one wire or pole. Go back and simply fix like it was before. Then ask for electricians help here. Scooby Doo knows and so does Polyarctus among others. The Hole too seems to have stuff down.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Post as many from as many angles, closeups and wide angle both.

is there a good chance that my place has 2 seperate breakers on the main one? hence only half of my breakers went out? so all he has to do it flip it back on?

these appear to be ANCIENT also. they are like .5" wide and have a different connector to the panel than i have ever seen

maryjane2029 said:

what kind of things can be done on his end?

i was thinking a main breaker panel like for the complex or something? but wouldn't all of the things in my house be not working?

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if it is like you say, and just the kitchen, is it only the stove? 220v.
If it is, you might have melted one of the CB's

LOL camera and computer still work at least

well there's your problem! Some say ON, but others say NO. cn

Ok so it is NOT the breaker out back. it was a double pole big one lol i dunno size...was not in the off position.

melted a major wire? what is a CB? is that an extensive fix? how could that be explained reasonably?

and are there multiple CB wires? maybe only one melted explaining why some are working and some arent?

CB is a circuit breaker, the thing with the switch, and you might have one that doesn't work. If you have a voltage tester, you could do your own detective work.
Voltage/continuity testers are dirt-cheap at any hardware store. cn

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these appear to be ANCIENT also. they are like .5" wide and have a different connector to the panel than i have ever seen

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Those are pacific federal breakers the worst electrical hazzard you could have possibly run into. You have tripped one of them. Most do not show any sign of being tripped. Disconnect everything you connected. Then You need to turn each one off one at a time and turn them back on to find the one thats out. That box is a joke that looks like it was just cobbled together from scrap. There is not an insurance company in the country that would cover a building with those in it, If they knew they were there. You can buy a complete breaker panel for about the same cost as one of those breakers.

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these appear to be ANCIENT also. they are like .5" wide and have a different connector to the panel than i have ever seen

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See what I mean about pics? No way you could have described that rat's nest with 2,000 words. Wow. Southern engineered spaghetti. Look, bro. Go to this "mexican" guy and offer him $20 to fix it and keep his yap shut. Don't tell him why you want it kept mum. Then if he does it buy him a 12-pack of good beer. Try to be respectful to the "mexican". He knows this tightwad slumlord is a tightwad and hates him for it.

More importantly he knows that building. I will not advise on wiring from a distance. Electricity kills and quickly.

maryjane2029 said:

I have a maintenance/mexican worker who lives on teh premises and i have a landlord who is pretty cool but not cool enough for me to have a grow i do not believe.

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Lol I don't understand why he had to be maintenance/mexican worker. Is his father a Maintenance worker and his mother a mexican worker or is it the other way around? That's cold blooded man

My 2 cents, take hotrodharley's advice, that is exactly what I'd do.

maryjane2029 said:

Ok so it is NOT the breaker out back. it was a double pole big one lol i dunno size...was not in the off position.

melted a major wire? what is a CB? is that an extensive fix? how could that be explained reasonably?

and are there multiple CB wires? maybe only one melted explaining why some are working and some arent?

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I shoulda mentioned this before, just in case, but FYI, just looking at them unless you have the eye and have done it before, will NOT tell you that they have or have not been tripped.
When tripped, the handle will still point towards tho "on" or "no"LOL setting.
Before you listen to harley about the happy beer and $20, try flipping them one by one to the "off" position the back "on".

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Lol I don't understand why he had to be maintenance/mexican worker. Is his father a Maintenance worker and his mother a mexican worker or is it the other way around? That's cold blooded man

My 2 cents, take hotrodharley's advice, that is exactly what I'd do.

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You're hilarious! When I read that I chuckled too, and was wondering if the maintenance worker might be a long distance relative of this guy I saw the other day with a sign on the door of his truck that simply read "Mexican Tree Service".
I thought, 'maybe that is why he is driving around,instead of working, looking for Mexican trees.'