{"id":3354,"date":"2020-07-20T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:18:58","slug":"the-mysterious-failure-of-our-electronics-and-electrical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/the-mysterious-failure-of-our-electronics-and-electrical-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Failure of Our Electronics and Electrical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, the electronics and electrical devices in our house began to fail. We already had a couple of lights that were blinking. Our dishwasher failed for the umpteenth time and a couple of days later all of the light bulbs in our kitchen track light system failed at the same time. Around the same time I accidentally knocked over one of my computer&#8217;s and damaged the hard drive. Yesterday I moved too quickly with my ham radio headphones and pulled them off my head making it so one side no longer works. A keyboard and mouse on another computer stopped working. Then another light bulb burned out in the kitchen. And, a light\u00a0in our laundry area stopped working. Yesterday after I replaced a bulb in our bathroom light fixture the entire fixture fell off the wall, and the glass shattered.\u00a0(It turns out that the fixture was screwed only into the drywall with no anchors, and it&#8217;s a miracle that it didn&#8217;t fall during the last 11 years!)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what caused all these failures within the span of less than a month? There were reasonable explanations for most of them, including my clumsiness. The lights that burned out in the kitchen were all installed at the same time, so maybe it makes sense that they all burned out at the same time, but it seems odd to me. The battery died on the wireless switch in the laundry area, but it was a couple of years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I hated replacing a 5-year old dishwasher (not cheap either), I was glad to be rid of it. Thankfully, we bought the extended warranty, because it had been repaired at least 7 or 8 times in the time we had it. We had to go several weeks without a dishwasher, but Janie came up with a good use for a dead dishwasher-it makes a good drying rack when you are hand-washing the dishes.  Today, our new dishwasher was installed. Hooray! Let&#8217;s hope it does better than the last one! You can bet we got the extended warranty though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200720_110826-1-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-3354 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='3354' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-3354 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-3354 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='3354' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-3354 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-3354 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, the electronics and electrical devices in our house began to fail. We already had a couple of lights that were blinking. 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