This recalls to mind the last horrorshow of a house I lived in- certain combinations of appliances drawing power at the same time would reliably trip the breakers . . . but it could be any one of 3 different breakers that would trip. We decided not to investigate the background of this situation too closely, because we expected it would fall somewhere between "horribly expensive" and "your house was designed by an actual demonologist, a la Ghostbusters" on the Sliding Scale of House Malfunctions.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."