Took me 6 hours to figure out a single bad barrel connector was killing an entire node

Xena Rivera · 2026-10-19T07:10:03.761335+00:00

I chased signal loss through 3 houses on a block in Mesa before I finally pulled the meter out and found one corroded barrel connector with a hairline crack letting water in. Six hours, all because I trusted the toner instead of just unscrewing the thing. How many of you skip the dumb physical check first and go straight to the meter?

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