I recently bought a 1992 Fleetwood mobile home. There are no fuses, it's a breaker box. I was running a space heater and TV when I tried to vacuum and the power all went out. I flipped all the switches in the breaker box inside the house and the breaker box outside. Now only a few lights will come on. I don't know anything about this kind of problem. We did just have the electric meter installed. And I read that the problem could be that the power company installed the meter incorrectly. Can anyone tell me what else may be the problem? Or suggest some way to fix it?
By Michelle
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It seems from your post that you overloaded the circuits by using the three things at the same time. Space heaters take a lot of power. As well, if all the lights went out, you obviously had overloaded the entire system, and not just one circuit.
I quite regularly flip a breaker if I forget and run the microwave when I am making toast in the morning. There are far too many outlets on this particular circuit. However, the problem is solved by flipping the one breaker back on. I did have to have the breaker replaced, as this has happened repeatedly over the years, and breakers do wear out.
In the mobile home that I used to live in back in the 80's, the main breaker was outside on a box on a power pole. Is that how yours is? But anyway, if switching the breakers back on does not solve the problem, it is time to call an electrician. You do not have to diagnose the problem; just call one in, tell him what has happened, and let him do his job. They are trained to fix electrical issues.
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