Friday night I was working on my recipe for this post when my wife mentioned it was cooling down in the house. I got up and turned on the heater and went back to my recipe. A few minutes later we started smelling a burning smell. After some investigation I discovered the smell was coming from the heater. I turned off the heater and decided I would clean out the heater Saturday morning and then make my recipe, get some pictures and write my post.
Saturday morning I got up, had some coffee and made sure I had all my ingredients for my recipe. I was really looking forward to making this dish for dinner tonight. I got out my Air compressor and moved it and the heater out to the front yard. After tripping the breaker when I turned on the compressor I shut a few things off that were on the same circuit and charged up the compressor. I pulled the cover off the heating unit and blew out the dust. I saw no signs of burning dust, but was sure that would solve the problem. I put the cover back on and took the heater back in the house. I plugged it in and turned it on. Nothing happened. It would not come on. I checked to make sure the outlet was working and still no life from the heater. This heater is one of those fake fireplace heaters. It looks like a fire place, but really the heating unit is on the bottom. I had taken the cover off of the heating unit and cleaned it out. I packed the heater back outside and removed the cover from the back and blew out the dust. That is when I found the burnt connector at the bottom.
This connector has the wires from the cord on one side and the wires going to the controls on the other. The dust had built up and overheated this connector and fried it. I spent the next several hours rewiring the connections. Finally I got the heater put back together and working. I turned to my wife and she asked me, “Whats for dinner?” I looked at the time and realized it was too late to make the recipe I had been working on and decided to go get a Little Caesars Pizza instead. The great thing about Little Caesars Pizza is it’s cheap. $5.00 for a pizza that is bigger than and tastes better than a frozen pizza. One pizza is more than enough for a dinner for two and the pizza is pretty good. They do not over do the sauce like some pizza places do, the cheese is just right and there is plenty of pepperoni on the pizza. It is a fast, and cheap dinner and that is what I like.
Clacked by Jeff Love
on Mar 14, 2010 @ 15:45 EST5EDT
