That's encouraging news. When you mentioned the Alexa was doing the same in your last post, I started to suspect a defective breaker could be the issue but those kind of breakers don't/won't itself automatically. So, such a failure (in that it wouldn't actually trip, but might have contact issue, such as bad connections/high resistance/weakened closing mechanism etc.) would be rare, but it is of course possible. Let's hope that's it. The 8500 is a truly flagship class avr that should have a long life.Electrician came over, looks like circuit breaker had an issue. Swapped it out and things are looking much more stable and I don't think damage was done. Thank you all for all of the ideas! What a relief. He also measured the draw and it was maybe 2.8 amps on a 20 amp circuit so I am nowhere near overloading that circuit even with lots of purifi amps and subwoofers. That was nice to see.
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