After some light investigation, I determined that the outlet wasn't providing any power. Unfortunately, troubleshooting requires turning the junction boxes on and off and that isn't something I can do when Nightingale is working. Last night I finally got a chance and while that didn't solve the problem, it did point me in the right direction. We have a light switch in the kids' room that always throws a breaker on the circuit board. I flipped it on, then reset the breaker, and then the deck lights worked again.
BUT...last night one of our Air Conditioning units stopped working. The air was coming out but it wasn't cold. After a bit of troubleshooting, I determined it was the same problem as last year. In fact, it has been 11 months since a repairman charged me $240 to fix it.
- $70 for a capacitor (they average $20)
- $50 for freon (this was just a precaution)
- $120 for labor, about half an hour of work IIRC.
I wanted to avoid that this time so I will replace the capacitor myself. Amazon had one and I could have had it here tomorrow between 4 am and 8 am but I needed to find one more item for $1.10. I could have selected literally anything, even two capacitors ($23.90 ea), and returned it. But I wanted to find something we could use. It indicated that I had until 5 pm to place the order so I put it down to go deal with feeding my kids lunch.
at 2:30 I picked this up again and now no option for tomorrow is available. the earliest will be sometime Saturday and it might bleed over into Sunday. I don't know if it is because Amazon just baits and switches the rapid delivery or because we live in such a shithole state that they only deliver here when it is convenient for them.
Update from the future: While getting an estimate for a water tank replacement, the person was able to troubleshoot my AC and figured it was just the circuit breaker. Since I had already tried that, I'm gonna say that the problem was the Capacitor and the breaker.
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