My bad, I was thinking of the ring road proposed to connect Trumbull Street to 34. This would’ve isolated Yale from Dixwell and Dwight. It also appears that, by the end of the 60s (when this was proposed), there were a lot of Black and Puerto Rican people in The Hill.

It was still being done to isolate downtown from the black neighborhoods

Sure, but it still doesn’t mean that OP should be going around acting like he’s tripping breakers with two lightbulbs, and then acting like that they tripped because they somehow knew that the wiring was substandard

Gaming desktops can use as much as 12-15 themselves. They don’t often, but they can add up easily. I’m willing to bet those are 15A circuits.

Elsewhere in the thread, OP remarked that much of the apartment is on two circuits. It’s probably ancient BX wiring. Unfortunately, OP is renting from one of Dan Greer’s cheapskate shell companies, who will never ever be convinced to rewire an apartment. The other issues seem more plausible, but they drag their feet hard on anything.

Ah well okay, in all fairness that’s a bit worse than I assumed. But it still sounds like old wiring imo, from the days of far fewer appliances. Ideally, they would’ve replaced that by now, but as you can probably tell, those guys buy fixer-uppers and then never fix jack shit.

My good friend lives in one of their houses. Their furnace was locked out. The oil company wouldn’t send a contractor without authorization from the landlord, and they couldn’t get the landlord to authorize it. For fucking heat. My buddy would’ve even paid for it. Still got ghosted. Thankfully, between me and his dad, we ultimately got it working, but that just goes to show what you’ve already figured out— they’re negligent slumlords. And that’s hardly the headline when it comes to the scumbag who leads them.

Best of luck with all this. Hopefully withholding rent helps out. I doubt you’ll get anywhere when it comes to getting a basic standard of wiring, but the rest of this stuff sounds plausible.

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> I wouldn’t doubt it, we live on the top two floors of a three floor Victorian and regularly trip the power with an air fryer and two desktops, so it’s been a fun year for us overall power-wise.

Sounds about consistent with my experience in a 1930s house wherein the circuits extend the full longitude of the floor. Not optimal wiring by modern standards, but I think that’s something one just has to realistically work around

What do you mean “so little?” It’s an air fryer. It puts out a bunch of heat to cook your food. That’s energy, and quite a bit of it. Desktop computers ain’t exactly light users, either. Gaming PCs can have PSUs as high as 1200W, that’s as much as a space heater that’ll max out a standard 15A circuit. This is expected behavior.

Furthermore, if we say for the sake of argument that there was some hypothetical wiring deficiency that would mean it can’t actually carry the current it’s rated for... your breaker wouldn’t somehow detect that and trip at some lower level of current. It only trips to prevent overcurrent protection. (I’m going to leave out the advanced tripping for ground faults and arc faults, which your old breakers probably don’t have, and which do not sound applicable to this situation.) What I’m trying to say is, it sounds like everything is working as intended.

Just out of curiosity, is your landlord one of Daniel Greer’s property management companies? (Edgewood Corners Inc, Edgewood Elm Housing Inc, Edgewood Village Inc, F.O.H. Inc, Yedidei Hagan Inc.) I only ask because those bastards own a lot of old homes, and take a very... “hands-off” approach.

I don’t know how you think a breaker works, but a cooking appliance plus multiple desktop computers drawing over 15 amps is hardly out of the ordinary. And the breaker has no damn clue how good or bad the wiring is when it trips.

I’m a 24-year-old local, and in my experience, a lot of the bars listed here are not conducive to making friends. Admittedly, this may be more indicative of my personality as well as that of my old friends, but my experience in Barcade and Trinity is seeing pre-existing friends stay in their insular groups.

What a wonderful kind of day

I don’t think you understand. We’re discussing circumstances in which air pumps, all being free by state law, might have more advanced functions disabled in the absence of (optional) payment. Advanced functions that Temporary-Car7981 mentioned in passing, and which I remarked that I had never seen.

They have to have lesser function without payment?

I got mine done at Torello Tire in East Haven.

I appreciated that they were honest about the fact that my car in its current state is not able to be aligned properly but they still got it as close as humanly possible.

I’ve never seen an air pump having lesser function without payment

Avoid the property management companies Mandy, Pike, I think at least one other one I’m forgetting

They were getting downvotes because of the completely baseless yet obnoxiously pervasive narrative that BLM somehow neutered cops

You’ll also probably have to press the reset button on your furnace if it tried and failed to light due to lack of fuel. After more than a couple attempts, it’ll lock out, and you’ll have to hunt around online on how to unlock it. (In my experience, it’s usually holding the reset button for 30 seconds. Please do not do this if your furnace is getting fuel but failing to light, you’re risking an explosion, which even if minor could do something like crack a heat exchanger and leaking CO into your home.)

My strategy is this: get a container to catch the oil and put it under the bleed valve. Open the bleed valve— it’s probably a little nut you’ll have to wrench. Reset/turn on the furnace. Let it run for 10 or 15 seconds with one hand on the power switch. Just before it does the safety shut-off, turn it off. You can usually tell from the timing of the relay clicks when the furnace stops trying to light, and is just blowing through air to purge any unburnt fuel and alleviate any explosion risk. Turn the power back on. Repeat until the fuel comes out with no sputtering/bubbles. Turn off the furnace, close the bleed valve, and turn it on. It should light at this point. If something else has gone wrong, you should have a pro look at it. Finally, you can pour the oil from your catch container into the tank outside.

How would that help the fact that the natural gas is expensive upstream in the supply chain from that