Awakened at 3 am this morning by our UPSes going beep. Thought at first it was a power cut but the streetlights were still on and the neighbour's door-bell was lit up. Right enough, the main circuit-breaker in the cellar was out. Pushing it up restored power for an instant before it plonked down again, so we hadn't had a surge, but none of the breakers we use had popped. Went through the board toggling breakers and trying the main one each time, with no effect. Then one of those which I thought was unused - a 3-phase job marked
chauffage, which I thought was provided for central-heating control, which we don't have - turned out to be the culprit. Curious. I left it off and all was well - only it had taken an hour to find and then we had a cuppa, so we lost two hours' sleep and woke up zombified at 7.
No power in my workshop this morning.
That's what the
chauffage breaker had been used for by the bloke who restored this place.
The shop has its own fuse-board, so once I've got my eyes aligned with the holes in my face the missus and I will be yodelling back & forth across 15 metres of garden as I push & pop fuses over there. Bugger. Or maybe I'll leave it until tomorrow - I'm too brain-dead just now.