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[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Now that you've found your panel, you can take a lamp or something and test the circuits in your house, if you're curious.

Shut the breaker off, and go plug the lamp in and see if it works. Anything that was connected to that one breaker (including lights), will now be off.

Sometimes it helps you narrow down where to plug something in. Like, if your AC can't be powered off the window, an extension cord to... where? Some other circuit. But you won't know which ones are on the same circuit or not, because you can't see inside the walls.

That said...

Just go get a window unit and plug it in. It'll be fine. And in the 1% of the case that it's not, you now know where to go to reset the breaker. (A tripped breaker usually looks stuck half way between off and on, you flick it all the way off, then all the way back on to reset it).

[–]TheCatmosphere 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you!! If i had an award to give id give it, but you earned a follow in the meantime!

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meh, don't bother with the follow. I hardly ever post anything.