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Originally Posted by Joanh@wny.twcbc.com
My dishwasher turned on BT ITSELF yesterday! i unplugged it and it stopped, In the same outlet was my garbage disposal, which initially still worked fine...THEN the disposal started itself and now both [vital] appliances are unusable.
i need a reasonably priced electrician ASAP - or a psychic!!
Any recommendations?
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This doesn't seem possible. An outlet is "live" all the time. Electricity is available when call upon by a switch of some sort. The dish washer "switch" is internal and subject to the buttons you push. There could be a fault inside the dish washer such that the switch got flipped and power was applied.
But the garbage disposal is a whole other story. It has its own separate MANUALLY flipped switch on the wall. Unless you flip that switch, no power can reach it.
While is it unlikely that switches on both appliances failed at the same time, I suppose that COULD occur. I think that the fact that they are connected to the same outlet is a false lead. Being connected to power is not what turns on appliances. It doesn't seem like the outlet can be the fault here.
If you had a lamp going on by itself, you would look at the switch, not the outlet. There is always power at the outlet. If a lamp switch is in the off position and you repeatedly connect and disconnect it from the wall outlet, it would NOT go on and off. Same with dish washers and garbage disposals.
Have you tried Ghost Busters?