It started with the oven not getting power and than if you turn on the front element on high everything would come on but not heat to full capacity and if you turned off the element or turned it off of high everything went off. And now my washer has no power to it and all the lights and garage door will not work in the garage. They are all on they own circuit breaker and the garage has its own panel with 3 switches. Any suggestions on what may be causing this?
Electrical – Why are some of the circuits not working
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Best Answer
It looks like you lost one of the hot legs to your service. It could be a bad connection on your main breaker, a bad connection in the meter base (had this exact same thing happen at my church's parsonage...an old house with very old electrical), or a bad connection at the transformer, or the overhead (assuming you have an overhead feed) connections to the triplex from the transformer to the wires at the weather head.
Loose connections can be very confounding...when they heat up, they lose connection or provide a very poor connection. Then they cool down and make a somewhat better connection...for a while!
You should get the power company involved to at least see if there are no issues with the supply. If not, then proceed to trace down the problem using a multi meter, starting with the main breaker. Be careful! You'll be dealing with REAL POWER there. PPE and rubber gloves that are certified for electrical work would make you pretty safe, but still....PPE is needed, esp. goggles.