On Monday night while my wife was tucking in our 8 year she noticed that the night light in his room was was on while his room light was on. There weren't any obstructions covering its light sensor so it shouldn't have been on. She proceeded to turn off the light in his room and noticed the night light was dim so she swapped it out with the night light in the bathroom.
A couple minutes later she came back into the room and noticed a distinct burning smell coming from the outlet. She immediately sent him outside and I turned off the breaker the bunk room and bedroom outlets are on. I removed the night light and verified it was the source of the burning smell. At the time this occurred the following items were connected to the bunk room and bedroom outlets: Son's electric blanket(Off), our electric blanket(Off), night light(On) and Sleep Number pump(On). All of these items are fried/not operational with the exception of my son's electric blanket (which doesn't make sense). Later that night I plugged in a Kill-A-Watt and noticed the voltage was fluctuating from 120-126.
I haven't yet checked all the wiring for chaffing and all the outlets for loose wire but plan to get on that asap. In the meantime does anyone have any ideas of what could have caused this?
From now on I'm going to make sure that all expensive electronics are at least plugged into a surge protector. Is there any other precautions that we should take such as replacing the bedroom outlets with GFCIs? Putting in in-wall surge protectors? Thanks in advance for your help.
A couple minutes later she came back into the room and noticed a distinct burning smell coming from the outlet. She immediately sent him outside and I turned off the breaker the bunk room and bedroom outlets are on. I removed the night light and verified it was the source of the burning smell. At the time this occurred the following items were connected to the bunk room and bedroom outlets: Son's electric blanket(Off), our electric blanket(Off), night light(On) and Sleep Number pump(On). All of these items are fried/not operational with the exception of my son's electric blanket (which doesn't make sense). Later that night I plugged in a Kill-A-Watt and noticed the voltage was fluctuating from 120-126.
I haven't yet checked all the wiring for chaffing and all the outlets for loose wire but plan to get on that asap. In the meantime does anyone have any ideas of what could have caused this?
From now on I'm going to make sure that all expensive electronics are at least plugged into a surge protector. Is there any other precautions that we should take such as replacing the bedroom outlets with GFCIs? Putting in in-wall surge protectors? Thanks in advance for your help.
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