Learning Experience

The long hot summer was here for a long while and what made it worst was the global warming due to several environmental factors, not excluding the renewed activity of several volcanoes.

My office-den at home was a very small room of about 4x4 meters. Small as it was, two electric fans were not enough to produce comfort. Both the patients and me perspired and felt irritated inside. My wife decided to buy an air-conditioning unit just to find out that there was no 1/2 horse power unit available nor was there any portable unit in town. She was about to settle for a 3/4 horse power when she was informed by her sister about a small unit being sold by her own Balikbayan brother. It was 110 volts and after it was installed we discovered that our 110 volt line was not topped to the main line, was fluctuating and therefore risky.

We reported the case to Meralco which led us to another discovery that we have never applied for a 110 volt connection, and whatever 110 volt line we have been using before was only internal interconnection and not coming from the main line.

The heat of summer brought us a series of errors and misunderstandings including the attempt of one electrician to do an illegal connection for a fee, which we of course, rejected. In totality everything that happened was a very interesting learning experience.