Came home from lunch and found that the lights in my bathroom & bedrooms were off, would not turn on. Went to circuit board and found that breaker #6 had tripped, so I reset it. This was around 3 PM.
Since then, large parts of my house have been behaving ... oddly. Mainly the Air Conditioner (which isn't even on the same circuit).
Issue #1: The HVAC unit has the fan on all the time, but it's barely going at 25% of it's normal spin (can tell by the noise it makes). The outside unit is fine, and seems to be producing plenty of "coldness." It's just not circulating well. If I turn on the basement lights, the fan on the AC ramps up. The more lights I turn on in the basement, the better the air circulates and I can get the fan up to about 75% of normal operation! Weird, huh?
Issue #2: The lights in the bathrooms are flickering, and the more "stuff" you turn on the worse they get. So in this case, like the exhaust fan takes power away from the lights and vice versa. (same breaker as the bedrooms, so this impacts my computer monitors too -- shut them off to not ruin them.)
No breakers have tripped since then.
I called MidAmerican and they sent a guy out, but he won't come inside, and will only check outside. He said he checked the box on my wall, the pole, and the underground transfer box, and all were fine. He said my house is getting power at something like 118 out of 120 "normal units" (of something...) so close to normal, and he said probably just too many people in the neighborhood using power.
I don't buy his explanation, as we've had way hotter days than this.
Please provide input or help me diagnose what's wrong!!!
thanks!
