Hello.. We've been having a rather odd problem, seemingly with the wiring in the basement of our home. What happens, is when one turns the bathroom fan off, it seems to interrupt, or .. something, the power in that circuit. The living room shares this circuit, and when one turns off the bathroom fan, there is an audible pop from the stereo speakers, lines on the TV, and when I had my ethernet/cable modem pluggen into it, i'd lose my connection, and need to reset them. My printer would also 'restart'. Also, perhaps a coincidence.. all appliances that have died recently, were on that circuit. A water cooler, a de-humidifier, and one of my network switches (lan). Also.. we have a motion sensor night light, so when one wanders to the bathroom, it comes on. When you shut off the fan, that night light does it's little 'blink fest', as it does when you first plug it in. Now.. my first thought, was perhaps the fan itself was bad.. so I replaced the exhaust fan with a new one. Didn't solve the problem. I tried replacing the light switch used to start it. Again, didn't help. I thought perhaps the circuit was overloaded, so unplugged everything, except my printer. Which continued to 'reset', and later, the night light, which also continued to 'reset'. Any suggestions/advice, as to what the problem could be? Thanks ;)

I am attempting to help my girlfriend make some wine bottle lamps, and the one she saw had christmas lights in the inside...now I have been fine through cutting a hole in the back for the lights to fit, but the only lights I can find are TOO long (and also have the plug at both ends to connect multiple strands). I'd like to know how to cut, and re-splice the strand (basically taking a chunk out of the middle, or the end since the female plug end is TOO big for my hole). HELP!! Thank you in advance for any advice!!