[stevej37]

A few days ago, my 65" Vizio started randomly powering off on it's own. Every time I restarted it...it would be fine for a couple hours at least.
Yesterday, during the Lions game, it did it and wouldn't restart. I then noticed that other room lights were off also.
Checked the breakers...none tripped.
Took the the cover off of the breaker box and immediately saw a white wire melted and hanging open. Before I started to strip it down and re-attach it to the ground bar, I decided to check voltages.
120 at the breakers...good
100 at the white wire....wtf?? Where does it go if it's a hot wire??

I gave up on going any further....I called my local electrician at 8am today and he was here at 8:30
He said he sees that often. He just shut all the breakers off, stripped the white wire back and attached it to the ground bar. Flipped the breakers back and everything works.
He then took his screwdriver and torqued all the connections (breakers and ground bar) down extremely tight. He said it is a good idea to do that maybe every other year because they will work slightly loose on their own. He was only here for about 45 minutes.


I said everything worked..meaning all that didn't die in the process of the low and high voltage.
I lost my Sony A/V receiver, various light bulbs, portable phone and two handsets and my ECO robot vacuum.
Amazingly, the Vizio tv survived.

It could have been a lot worse...meaning a fire.