Larry & Radar,
That ain't SWAG or dumb at all. In fact, I'm hoping that that is exactly what the problem is; something simple and so obvious as to be overlooked. My worst fear in this situation is that there is a loose connection that could be arcing. I know that his house is over 40 years old and ther are no arc fault breakers in his panel (I asked him to visually discribe the breakers).I'm an industrial electrician, and I can't tell you how many simple problems have cost lots of $$$$$ in man hours because the electician was way too "smart" to start looking for the simplest solution.
Thanks again to all of you; I'm off to the source to find the culprit. I'll post my findings here tonite.
Much obliged,
Dan
[This message has been edited by workn26 (edited 06-20-2006).]
