I have a house that runs solely on 120 volts. For some reason I am only getting 120 volts on one leg on the main power plug going in to my house. The others are not getting any. What could cause this? I only have lights working as well as all but 4 outlets and no hot water heater. It, my house is an old trailer.
Electrical – not getting any power in two legs of the main power
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Best Answer
If you are comfortable doing it, you can take the front panel off of your breaker box and check the voltage of the wires coming in from the meter, but in cases where "one leg is dead" it is usually a problem with the power utility. In your case it's pretty obvious because you have no 240v loads, but sometimes in houses it can be a confusing and dangerous problem because voltage can travel through a 240v appliance.
I guess it could be a bad connection between the main breaker and the rest of the panel, but we've had several questions on the site about partial power outages and it's generally the power companies issue.