New Entergy Meters issues

I'm certainly not an electrician, but that makes absolutely no sense to me. If you have power coming to the meter and no circuits tripped, then all circuits should be in working order if all else is correct as far as wiring from the meter to outlets and appliances in the house that is.

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I'm certainly not an electrician, but that makes absolutely no sense to me. If you have power coming to the meter and no circuits tripped, then all circuits should be in working order if all else is correct as far as wiring from the meter to outlets and appliances in the house that is.

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nope nope nope, the way it works is you have 220 volts coming in to the fuse/breaker panel with two 110v wires, one feeds half the 110 circuits and lights in your house and the other feeds the other half.

together they both combine to feed your 220v breakers for things that need 220 volts.

its very very common to have one blown main fuse or half of a main 220 breaker go bad only feeding half the stuff in your house.

OP just needs to reset his main breaker or check to see if his main electrical panel has issues feeding power to the breakers. sometimes they go bad and will literally start melting the aluminum buss bars on you until they start a fire

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nope nope nope, the way it works is you have 220 volts coming in to the fuse/breaker panel with two 110v wires, one feeds half the 110 circuits and lights in your house and the other feeds the other half.

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ERGO, the disclaimer, "I'm certainly not an electrician"

Thanks for clearing that up.

They broke my fathers meter a few years ago.
Had three electricians say it was the guy who pulled the meters out fault.
Entergy denied the claim.

Cost me $2,800 to get an electrician out, permits, and new box.

They broke it again a few weeks later pulling the meter out and they did pay the second time as it was a new box.

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the way it works is you have 220 volts coming in to the fuse/breaker panel with two 110v wires, one feeds half the 110 circuits and lights in your house and the other feeds the other half.

together they both combine to feed your 220v breakers for things that need 220 volts.

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This is true but if the OP is correct in their assessment, the issue is not his meter or the breaker box but wiring in his house.

From the OP

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Not the circuit breaker because 1 I’ve checked and 2 I’ll have lights work in a room where the sockets don’t and I know That room is on one circuit breaker.

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If the OP is correct, the issue is somewhere in the room. My suspicion is the op is wrong but I have had the same issue but the light and most of the sockets didn’t work. The problem was a loose connection where it jump off to the next outlet.

I would still double check breakers to see if any are tripped.