Some time ago I was sitting in my recliner in the living room and I started noticing an unusual smell. The concentration got to where I would start coughing. I tried pulling things out to see if something organic had got under something and rotted, but I couldn't find anything. When it got cool enough outside so the AC wouldn't run I would open the front door and kitchen door to air out the house. The smell would diminish for a while but then would return.
So a couple days ago I had a recollection of a fluorescent light fixture at an old job that went bad, and how the smell from the bad ballast would gag a maggot. The thought of that ballast then translated into the surge protector next to my recliner. So I pulled out the surge protector by my recliner and hooked up another one that I had in the house. I've aired out the house again and so far the strength of the odor has gone down by a good 90% and hasn't increased. So the plan is to take the old surge protector to the recycler and buy a new surge protector.
I know next to nothing about electrical stuff, so I hope the folks here can give me some guidance as to whether I took care of the problem or not. Thanks in advance for your help.
So a couple days ago I had a recollection of a fluorescent light fixture at an old job that went bad, and how the smell from the bad ballast would gag a maggot. The thought of that ballast then translated into the surge protector next to my recliner. So I pulled out the surge protector by my recliner and hooked up another one that I had in the house. I've aired out the house again and so far the strength of the odor has gone down by a good 90% and hasn't increased. So the plan is to take the old surge protector to the recycler and buy a new surge protector.
I know next to nothing about electrical stuff, so I hope the folks here can give me some guidance as to whether I took care of the problem or not. Thanks in advance for your help.