Several months ago, the pinhead manager of the mobile home park where I live got it into his craw to have the electric meter boxes inspected. Our place is a “double-wide,” with my bedroom, originally a den, as the extra part. They charged us $150 (!) to disconnect the den’s circuit from the power line and the outlets are still dead. When I asked the manager what was going on, at my Mom’s suggestion, he bellowed at me–like I was a retarded, deaf three-year-old–about “bootlegging.” After this tirade he walked away. He refused to listen to my main point: A few years ago when our meter failed, all of our electricity went out, my room included. And when the faulty electric meter was replaced, all the electricity went back on, my room included. This bellowing pinhead of a manager has long since left.
My question is: What kinds of connections must be made, in order to restore electricity to the circuits in my room (with their own circuit breaker) without suggesting an illegal bypass of the meter?
My place has connections under the floor that connect the two halves. Is your room the only room in that half without power?
Yes, it is. It even had a separate circuit breaker for the circuits in my room, including two outlets on the outside wall.
Gee, I was afraid you electrocuted yourself repairing it.
Can you trace the wiring from your circuit breaker to where ever it comes from?
All the circuit breakers should be in the same box in your house. If not, something is done wrong.
Last week the circuit, in the living room, into which I had plugged a heavy, 3-prong extension cord, to power lights, etc., in my room, went out, after two years (almost to the day). I realized it would be a while before an electrician could come and set it straight–he would have to be a licensed electrician and the work would have to be inspected by a state inspector, apparently according to California law.
Anyway, yesterday afternoon I went out to check the meter and conduit to see what connections were run into the side wall and up into the circuit-breaker box in the other bedroom closet. It turned out there were no such connections; but on the meter post, just below the meter itself, is a box (with a metal cover that closes) over two breaker switches, for the main circuit. Mounted to the right of the meter post is another such box. (Each such box has a separate conduit running under the mobile home to a circuit box.) I opened it and the one breaker switch inside was “OFF.”
Well, that was that. I turned it “ON,” reset the subsidiary breaker switches in my own closet, and tested an outlet–and it works!! 
I replugged all the electric things in my room and removed the heavy extension cord. The outlet I had plugged the big cord into, however, is still dead, as is one other on that wall, along with our kitchen ceiling light and front porch light.
(I still think, however, I should get a notarized statement to affirm that all of our electicity is run through that one meter, in case another managing pinhead bawls us out about it.)
A day or so after the last check I made of the system, I found out that the lights in my room–as well as every other electric circuit in our place–went dead when I shut off the (3) main breaker switches, in a box on the post just below the meter. The separate breaker box, with one switch, is mounted on the right side of the meter post; and so I have three switches–main breaker, separate breaker, and inside breaker box, in my closet, that control the circuits in my room. And yesterday an electrician came and fixed a “loose connection” on the wall in our dining room–and the outlets and lights that were out last week are live again.
Now if only this electrician could fix Bin Laden…