If no power in bed or bath and no breakers are tripped and you already reset breaker for those rooms as well as main breaker butdidn't help No reset button on any GFCI's What should you be looking for?

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets/main, circuit breakerscircuit breakers: Hi. Perhaps the breaker is defective, so it is tripping the main instead. There really isn t a reason that should be happening.

But it sounds like something serious that should be looked at if you can t trace it down. Electrical Wiring in the Home: more outlets needed, I think! , fire inspection, extension cordfire inspection, extension cord, extension cords: First thing I would do is get rid of the extension cords.

They are for TEMPORARY use anyway, and if anyone sees what looks like a permanent application, that s a no-no . Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets/overhead, voltage tester, incoming powervoltage tester, incoming power, neutral wire: Lisa, Your logic does make sense and for the most part is correct. But the loose neutral can be located in an outlet that is dead but it would be the outlet that is right next to the last outlet working ussually.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets quit working, ceiling light fixture, wire nutceiling light fixture, wire nut, neutral wire: Hi. Most likely a white neutral wire is the problem, if you are getting a little current from the outlets. Did you check the outlets and devices that are working?

It could be the wire leaving the working device that has become disconnected. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets in one room will not work, gfi receptacle, reset buttongfi receptacle, reset button: The circuit is very likely still on, it is just not feeding through the GFI receptacle with the buttons. Turn off the breaker that is feeding this receptacle and replace it and it should be fine.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets in room not working, loose wire, vacumloose wire, vacum: 1 of the working outlets has a wire that feeds one of the non working outlets. A wire has worked loose in either the working outlet or the closest non working outlet. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets on two side of room stopped working, fuse box, ouletsfuse box, oulets, electrical outlet: First of course check the breaker or fuse box.

If that isn t it, most likely a mouse has chewed through the wiring; trust me it happens all the time no matter the house value. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets and sparks, loose wire, sparksloose wire, sparks, many thanks: Sparks are never a good thing when it come to electricity. It sounds like there a loose wire in the outlet.

Shut off the breaker that feeds this outlet, open the outlet and tighten down all the wires attached to it. Electrical Wiring in the Home: two outlets, one switch, top screws, porch lighttop screws, porch light, 3 way switches: It is becoming clearer. So let me see if I understand now.

You have two switches next to each other. One of them is a 3-way that controls the outlet. The other one is a single that controls the porch light.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Two outlets, one switched--no power, three way switches, duplex outletsthree way switches, duplex outlets, neon light: The black wires on the outlets are the always hot wires, and the reds are the ones that are usually controlled by the switches. The blacks go onto 1 dark screw, and the reds on the other dark screw, and the whites on the silver screws. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets and switches in basement, concrete basement walls, cement wallconcrete basement walls, cement wall, romex: Welcome back Cos, Ok, I think I got your picture.

And I ve seen / installed these tubs with the plug on them. Normally this should be a dedicated run, meaning straight from the panel. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets and wall switch won't work, lowe s, swithlowe s, swith, wall switch: Without tearing out the walls, the only other thing you could do is either from the basement/crawl space or through the attic drop new lines down or up as the case may be.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: some outlets work, others do not, violent thunderstorm, light switchesviolent thunderstorm, light switches, galey: Good idea to turn the breaker off. With lightning you just never know. Before you attempt to do anything else I would suggest you contact your homeowner s insurance company and see how they want you to proceed.

This should be a covered claim. Electrical Wiring in the Home: No outlets work, daughters name, recepticlesdaughters name, recepticles, recepticle: My daughters name is Cecile..so I really wish I could do more to help. If I were you...I would get a screwdriver and take the plates of the recepticles, then take the recepticles out of the box...a little.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets not working, lead screws, gfi outletlead screws, gfi outlet, arc fault: Based on your description...and your guess that the home is over 55 years old...it s clearly had some electrical upgrading over the decades.....and not all of it appears to have been up to snuff....or may have been some DIY work. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets not working, gfi outlet, arc faultgfi outlet, arc fault, gfci: This is a DUPLICATE question...either the send button was accidentally pushed twice or the website had a problem when you first sent me your question. Electrical Wiring in the Home: some outlets not working, gfi outlet, basement garagegfi outlet, basement garage, tabs: Basement outlets are usually protected by a GFI outlet.

This outlet looks like a regular outlet except for 2 tabs in the middle. Try and locate one somewhere in the basement. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets not working, gfci outlet, bottom buttongfci outlet, bottom button, plug ins: Ian, All outlets were working and suddenly when using hair dryers, either out of the ordinary amount or common use, the outlets quit.

All the outlets are not working as I understand it, on one ciruit you have identified. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets not working, circuit breakers, voltage testercircuit breakers, voltage tester, loose wires: Jeff, This is something we can work Thru if you have the patience and the time, but you will need a voltage tester of some sort. We need to find out which breaker the dead outlets are connected to, hopefully, the breakers are marked in the panel.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets not working, home improvement centers, gfi outlethome improvement centers, gfi outlet, outdoor outlets: When you reset the outlet, does it stay reset; or, does it trip out right away? If it stays reset, but still isn t hot, then the problem is ahead of that outlet. This would indicate the problem is in the breaker panel.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outlets, receptacle, drywallreceptacle, drywall, top and bottom: At most hardware and home stores they sell extension inserts that are perfectly acceptable for this. Electrical Wiring in the Home: putting outletts in a unfinished attic, outletts, metal boxesoutletts, metal boxes, junction boxes: Hi. You may want to get a general wiring book at a home center or library.

I can give you specific information, but there is a lot of general information as to what you can and can t do. The main thing is to find a place to tap off of. Electrical Wiring in the Home: two outltes, one switched, tv connector, bad informationtv connector, bad information, time mark: The TV cable box should be separate to avoid interference.

Whichever 1/2 of the outlet # 1 is hot all the time, mark the wire on that 1/2 that is on a dark screw as hot . Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside Christmas lights, digital timers, manual overridedigital timers, manual override, exact sizes: Hi. I thought you would be adding the timers to the existing circuits.

If you are starting from scratch, then you need to calculate the load. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside door light trouble, receptaclereceptacle: If you have a voltage tester check and see if you have power to the switch, if you do check the connections in the fixture. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside electrical outlet, set screw, wire nutset screw, wire nut, neutral wire: Dan, It sounds to me like you could possibly have a loose neutral wire somewhere in the circuit.

If you have a good digital read out tester it will usually show you approximately 60 volts when you test the black and white wires. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside electrical outlets, moisture buildup, lostsmoisture buildup, losts, christmas lights: Some times a moisture buildup will create sufficient contact to ground and trip a GFCI recepticle. It can be a loose connection, a bulb flickering will cause a trip..losts of possibilities.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside light, sand paper, screwssand paper, screws: Inside the socket where the bulb screws in, there is a tab at the bottom that makes contact with the tip of the bulb. Sometimes this gets bent or rusted. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlet, volt outlet, home depotvolt outlet, home depot, 110 volts: Hi.

There are other possible explanations too, such as a shared neutral circuit, or a switched circuit. See where the wires connect to the breaker. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets, circuit breakers, good radiocircuit breakers, good radio, triped: Are all of these outlets GFCI, or is only one GFCI and the remainder protected by this device?

If you have only one GFCI and everything else is dead, the device either is faulty, or has tripped. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets, gfci, ground faultgfci, ground fault, extension cord: Hi. Outside outlets should be connected to a GFCI which will shut the circuit down if there is a ground fault.

It is probably wired to the outlets in your bathrooms, basement, and garage. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets, 110v outlet, j box110v outlet, j box, blank face: Morning Cindy, You will need a 110V outlet outside to run your lights. As far as this blank cover over a box.

Your builder left it there basically because its a mistake. This box could be a j-box, a box with a missing wire, ect. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Are outside outlets required to be on their own circuit?

, gfci receptacle, lawn toolsgfci receptacle, lawn tools, existing home: I m not sure if its required for an existing home. I know a dedicated circuit is required for a new home though. If you have the option Wayne.

I would just run this circuit back to the panel on its own breaker. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets have reversed, shock hazard, wirenutsshock hazard, wirenuts, broken wires: Hi. If the front and back outlets are on the same circuit, there is likely to be a ground fault circuit interupter somewhere on the circuit--either at the breaker box or at the first outlet.

These have a test button on them. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets not working, gfi outlet, outdoor outletsgfi outlet, outdoor outlets, circuit breakers: This sounds like a tripped GFI outlet. I suspect that there is a GFI outlet that has tripped.

This outlet can be found in any of the outside outlets that aren t working or in the garage. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside outlets, american disabilities act, recepticleamerican disabilities act, recepticle, california code: Not sure there is a specific california code for receptacle height. The only code I am aware of is the ADA American Disabilities Act for handicapped individuals.

Most common height is 18 to center. Hope this helps. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside plug, outdoor outlets, incoming poweroutdoor outlets, incoming power, power supply: According to the code, the laundry outlet cannot be used for other room outlets, nor for outdoor outlets.

I m afraid I don t understand your comment about tthe plug having a higher voltage than the normal 120v. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside plug for lights, storage shed, back doorstorage shed, back door, out of sight: I have a good picture of what is there, but I m not clear exactly what you want to add. What I think you re saying is, you want to extend the run from the pipe at the end of the patio, and bring it to the shed.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside plug not working, wire nuts, loose wireswire nuts, loose wires, gfci: Hi. If your house was built in the mid 1980 s or after, you should have a GFCI somewhere. Many times, electricians put the GFCI in the bathroom, garage or basement and then connect the outside outlet to it.

So be sure to look in all these rooms. Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside plug, wall outlets, amperagewall outlets, amperage, good question: Graham, what do you mean you have a higher than normal voltage plug? Tell me about that, how do you know it is higher, how much higher, how did you come to find out?

Also, are all the other outlets plugs lower than the washer plug? Electrical Wiring in the Home: outside wall mounted lighting, faux stone, porchfaux stone, porch, lamps: Depending on the situation, is the box recessed to far, or sticking out too far. You can buy box extensions and add to the box to exceed the stone.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: outtage, butt splice, wirenutsbutt splice, wirenuts, laundry room: Hi. There are two causes of burnt wires. Either someone used a bulb that was bigger than they should have, or there was a short.

Fixing it can be tricky, because there is only so much wire in the box. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven & cooktop wiring, copper wire, kilowattscopper wire, kilowatts, nameplate: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I did not have my codebook with me over the weekend, and I needed it to make sure my answer was correct.

According to the NEC, you can tap off of a 50amp circuit, but not a 40amp circuit. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven installation, oven light, wall ovenoven light, wall oven, volt meter: Double check to make sure you got the right breaker. It should be a double breaker of around 40 amps.

With your meter check black to to white or ground and red to ground and see if you get any readings. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven installation, convection ovens, convection ovenconvection ovens, convection oven, don beck: the 208 voltage is indicated in case you are hooking up to 3 phase wiring. You can ignore that as 3 phase isn t used on residential wiring, only large commercial buildings.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven wiring, conduit box, double ovenconduit box, double oven, broiler: Chris, The total need to run both units at full speed is 70 amps and I doubt that the breaker for the old range is that big, It is porbably a 60 or maybe even a 40 amp. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven wiring, copper wires, neutral wirecopper wires, neutral wire, new appliance: Check the paperwork that came with the new oven or check with the place you bought it and see if it needs a neutral wire. Should be available either in the wiring instructions or, someone at the place of purchase should know.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven wiring, standard protocol, wire nutstandard protocol, wire nut, metal conduit: Brent, Awesome, I am glad it all works for you now. Those old stoves are nice. I cannot think of any reason why or how it would harm to put an inline fuse in the 100v circuit.

You would just need to know how many amps are being drawn normally. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven wiring, wire hanger, best betwire hanger, best bet, zillion: Rod, Been there done that and it was no fun. Your best bet is to turn off the breaker and pull the oven out far enough to remove the back panel.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven wiring, range oven, I am samrange oven, I am sam, dangerous situation: you may have a very dangerous situation here. Either of the original circuits was probably too small to handle the load of the entire stove. Electrical Wiring in the Home: oven not working, new element, neutralsnew element, neutrals, hot black: The green is your ground and needs to be connected for you and your familys safety.

If there is no fourth wire on your stove then simply attach it to the stoves chasis. Like the stoves metal exterior cabinet for example. Electrical Wiring in the Home: overhead ceiling fan light, ceiling fan light, casablanca ceiling fanceiling fan light, casablanca ceiling fan, robert wilber: - * Robert Wilber Licensed Philadelphia Electrician Philadelphia License # 3516 - 16765 * If the only control for the fan is truly the switch at the wall, then you have a bad switch.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: overheated wiring, surge arrestors, two treessurge arrestors, two trees, phone recorder: Lightening is so high of a voltage, it can actually travel the outside insulation and enter the electrical system at any point. Electrical Wiring in the Home: overheating cans - this may stump you, it has me, amp breaker, utility boxesamp breaker, utility boxes, wire nut: Good Morning Davis, Thanks for the kind words...even with over 3 decades in the electrical field...every once in a great while I get stumped...but I don t stop until I find the answers...just my nature. Electrical Wiring in the Home: overload, circuit volts, amp breakercircuit volts, amp breaker, amp circuit: When a circuit is overloaded it should trip the breaker.

An amprobe will show the amperage being draw at the circuit breaker. (on the wire itself) I set up a 120volt spa pump on a 20 amp breaker. The pump plate rating was 19.4 amps at 120.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: overload, engine block heaters, bob osgoodengine block heaters, bob osgood, weather extremes: Electrical Wiring in the Home: overloaded circuit? , btu calculations, r value of insulationbtu calculations, r value of insulation, window ac: Thanks for the follow-up. Yes...it can get a little toasty in Columbia....we stop by there every year in route to Florida.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: overloading a circuit, watt bulbs, air condwatt bulbs, air cond, ft sections: Check the breaker for this area, if it is a 20 amp you will be fine. Even if it s a 15 amp, you still should be OK. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Am I overloading the circuit breaker?

, track lighting systems, ceiling fan lighttrack lighting systems, ceiling fan light, water pot: You could run into problems with what your adding depending on when you use them, I wouldn t run the washer and dryer at the same time and I would turn off the large A/C when using either one. Hook the dryer up to the 2 empty 30A spaces. Electrical Wiring in the Home: overloading, hot water tank, tankless water heaterhot water tank, tankless water heater, tankless hot water tank: http://www.houseneeds.com/shop/HeatingProducts/WaterHeating/stiebeleltron/stiebeleltronspecs.htm has the spec s for this heater.

It requires 3 x 50 amp breakers and 3 x #8 wire to feed it. Max amp load is 120 amps. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panalboard and recepticals in the Garage, national electrical code, recepticalsnational electrical code, recepticals, code reference: Hi Rian The National Electrical Code does not specify minimum heights for either of these enclosures.

There are maximum heights, but not minimum. I believe the building code does address this, including in a garage. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panasonic vent fan wiring, vent fan, basement stairsvent fan, basement stairs, gfci breaker: Having run a wiring check for the Panasonic model FV-11VHL1...they actually suggest an 8 WIRE run to the unit...but you can accomplish it with a run of 12/3 and a run of 12/2....and sharing the neutral.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, feeder lines, amp breakerfeeder lines, amp breaker, amp service: The main thing to test first is the incoming service to be sure it can handle an additional load. With everything you can turn on, check the amp draw of both of the main feeder lines one at a time that goes to the main breaker. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, amp breaker, breakersamp breaker, breakers, hot tub: If your panel is full, remove 1 of the 240 volt breakers that has enough wire to make it to the new panel.

Place a 100 amp breaker there, and attach the wires from it to the new panel input. Being this close the 2d panel won t need a Main Breaker. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, sized spaces, hi dougsized spaces, hi doug, breakers: You can try to purchase thin (or 1/2 sized) breakers for your panel.

This allows you to relocate 2 circuits to one space, thereby freeing up one space. You will need at least 4 thin breakers to free up 2 normal sized spaces. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, don beck, hi dougdon beck, hi doug, breakers: I can help you add another sub panel, if you wish; but it is easier and cheaper to make more room in your main panel.

There are breakers called tandem breakers (sometimes called piggyback, and probably other names also). Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, amp line, hi dougamp line, hi doug, central ac: First let me know what size service you have now, 60 , 100, 150 or 200 amps? And how many circuits.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, long cold day, amp loadlong cold day, amp load, amp service: Just getting back in for the day (long cold day here in the northeast....brrr). Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, breakers, hot tubbreakers, hot tub, pointers: Hi. I am not a fan of adding extra panels.

The code allows only so many breakers. 40 for 200 amp, 30 for 150 amps and so on. It may be time to upgrade.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, hot tub, pointershot tub, pointers: Doug, you will need two breaker spaces in the existing panel to feed the new one. That means that you will have to have a minimum of four spaces in the new sub-panel. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Box?

, gauge copper wire, amp breakergauge copper wire, amp breaker, wire tag: They not only care, it is illegal in most jurisdictions to remove this tag without their approval, fines are generally $250 - $500. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Boxes, cold water pipe, boxescold water pipe, boxes: Hi. The only thing I can think of is that it is ground wire.

This should evenutally go to a cold water pipe. Unless someone is trying to tap off of the other box and meter. You would have to take the covers off and see where the wires go to.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel/Conduit Question, amp breaker, subpanelamp breaker, subpanel, sheetrock: Mis information can drive you nuts. You can put in a 400amp panel and use # 12 wire if all you supply the panel with is a 20amp breaker. The amperage on the panel is the MAX you can have.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel over a duplex outlet, thomas betts, judges panelsthomas betts, judges panels, google: The product is called a spark shield, and is made by a bunch of different companies. Arlington makes a plastic product, and I believe Thomas&Betts makes a metal one. You should do a google for spark shield and you will get numerous sites.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel is full, power breakers, better solutionpower breakers, better solution, fuses: I do not recommend using the mini breakers. The better solution would be to install a sub panel near the main panel to have additional space. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel junction with 6/2 wire, electrical installation, hookupelectrical installation, hookup, fuse: However, your new stove will probably have a wire hookup.

This can be adapted to a 3 wire system, so make sure you read the electrical installation instructions real well so gets connected up correctly. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel moving charges, southern california edison, electricity providersouthern california edison, electricity provider, service meter: Marcie: If you been their 7 years already. And you haven t added the pool so the line runs over it.

This is a power company problem not yours. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel placement, pvc conduit, hi adampvc conduit, hi adam, underground service: the way the code reads is that the disconnect needs to be adjacent to the location where the conductors enter the building, so you could possibly do it the way you state. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Question, conventional framing, romex wiringconventional framing, romex wiring, romex wire: The only wires that should not run parallel for any length of space would electronic device wiring, such as alarm wiring, control wiring, etc. There is no substantial affect to running line voltage wiring together.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Replacement, cross sectional area, fuse boxcross sectional area, fuse box, ahj: It d certainly be legal to terminate all your exisitng wiring in a junction box, properly sized, then extend you circuits to the new panel. You could also make your joints in the new panel enclosure (Article 312.8) IF there was adequate space to do so, i.e. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel as raceway?

, conduit diameter, automatic transfer switchconduit diameter, automatic transfer switch, thhn: I m not exactly sure what your planning here. Sounds like your wanting to run a circuit from M to A using the original conduit, passing through box E. Assuming you have enough room in your existing conduit.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade, meter base, grounding wiresmeter base, grounding wires, service entrance: I have never used either of those two methods as I ve always been able to switch a complete service over in 6 to 10 hours. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade, meter base, grounding wiresmeter base, grounding wires, service entrance: What you are considering is not safe, nor approved. YOu will need a permit from your municipality and a hard schedule from your utility company.

It all happens the same day. The utility comes out at earliest schedule...7am. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade, meter base, amp servicemeter base, amp service, service entrance: Hi.

I would contact the power company first, and see what you need to do, and how much you need to replace vs what they will do. Hopefully someone will he helpful enough. If you put the new panel in a new location, will the wires reach?

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade, many different things, time knowledgemany different things, time knowledge, free estimate: I would thin your local electricians would give you a free estimate. It would be hard for me to pin down as there as so many different things involved. I would guess $2,000.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade, type fuses, disc typetype fuses, disc type, nameplate: Jeff There should not be 2 mains what you may have is a breaker for a sub panel. What you can do is install a new main breaker panel and then install a breaker for the sub panel. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade/retro fit, ge breakers, pushmaticge breakers, pushmatic, e bay: GE, Square D, ITE/Gould are all good brands.

Square D (maybe the others as well) make a residential grade device (Square D markets thiers as Homeline) that is cheaper in quality than commercial grade, but it s still reasonable. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade vs. subpanel, feeder lines, home expansionfeeder lines, home expansion, central air conditioning: I am not familiar with this brand of panel or the associated problems. I am not sure what is involved in the retrofitting he is proposing, but for my own peace of mind, I would replace this panel.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel upgrade? , don beck, amp servicedon beck, amp service, piggy backs: There are breakers called tandems or piggy backs. These breakers are 1/2 the size of regular brekers.

You can remove 1 regular breaker and install 2 of these piggy backs in the same space. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Another Panel Wire Size Question! , 220 volt, stationary tools220 volt, stationary tools, x25: Your assessment of the situation is very sound.

The only place you may be able to cut back, is to use a 60 amp sub panel instead of the 100 amp panel. The wire then could be # 6/4. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Wiring, amp breaker, thhn wireamp breaker, thhn wire, subpanel: You said : So, I ll be feeding the sub with a 60 or 70 amp breaker.

(#6 should be good for 75 amps) #6 copper is only rated for 65 amps, not 75 amps. Since there is not a 65 amp breaker, you are allowed to upsize it to 70 amps, per code. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Wiring, cutler hammer, neutral conductorscutler hammer, neutral conductors, neutral wire: Most panel manufacturers say not to double lug any wire, while some allow 2 wires to be under the same screw if those wires are the equipment grounding conductors (ground wire) and not the neutral conductors (white wires).

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel Wiring, nelson minnesota, minnesota billnelson minnesota, minnesota bill, ampacity: Bill, if there is an actual panel, not just a meter box, you can feed anything that the panel capacity will allow. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel wiring, prong plug, volt sourceprong plug, volt source, conductor cable: 1 50 amp double pole breaker and it will depend on the cord, but you need a total of 3 conductors, 2 hot legs and one ground, and the receptacle to match the welder. Some cables do not count the ground, others do.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panel, circuit breakers, project iecircuit breakers, project ie, amperage: The term pancake refers to a pair of circuit breakers that occupy the space of one. If you can match up 2 pancake breakers in the place of two standard breakers, you have just added addition 220 capacity to the panel. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panelboard Surge, power surge, town housespower surge, town houses, power company: Without more info, I m afraid I can only guess.

Possibly the power company transformer and/or lines had some kind of short, which put more voltage onto your lines than it was supposed to. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panelboards/Sub-panels, bob osgood, cardboard typebob osgood, cardboard type, shipping protection: Been away at a remote location...just getting back to home base. Based on your description...it s not clear what type of lug caps you are referring to...every panel is different.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Panelboxes, copper wire, electrical companycopper wire, electrical company, amperage: Dan, Your utility company should be involved in this because each meter has a limit on the amperage. So by adding more load on a meter it is possible to exceed the limit of that meter. So your meter may need to be upgraded.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pannel Box Location, hot water heaters, gas furnacehot water heaters, gas furnace, laundry rooms: I don t read anything in Article 408 that would prohibit your installation. It must be a local ordinance, which would take precedence over the National Code. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Parallel Flourescent lighting, flourescent lighting, old enginesflourescent lighting, old engines, wire connections: Always install new bulbs with a new ballast.

It is almost like installing a new engine and using the old engines oil. One other factor may be involved, what is the temperature in the area of these fixtures. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Parallel Switches, upstairs downstairs, hallway lightupstairs downstairs, hallway light, electrical boxes: Hi.

The single common screw will have the power source on one end, and the wire going to the light on the other. The two similar color screws on one switch connect with the same two screws on the other switch. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Two Parallel Switches For Control Of Two Separate Lights, master switch, way switchmaster switch, way switch, neutrals: James, I don t think a three way will work.

A three way needs to have a pair of wires that run directly from switch to switch, plus a hot line in and a neutral in. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Two Parallel Switches For Control Of Two Separate Lights, master switch, way switchmaster switch, way switch, neutrals: The switch in question is not a 3 way. All 3 way setups requires 3 terminals on the switch, and 3 wires attached.

What you have here is the hall lite on back to back single poles. Switch # 2, down at the other end of the hall. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part 2 - wiring recessed lights from a wall outlet.

, wall switches, silver cwall switches, silver c, wall switch: On the switched outlet, the white coming fom the recess light goes onto one of the silver colored screws. There should be at least 1 other white wire already attached. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part of circuit down - diagnosis help please!

, wire nuts, breakdown pointwire nuts, breakdown point, neutral wire: You are looking for a loose or broken neutral wire. Since you know how the circuit is laid out, check the 1st non working device. It also could be be in the last working device as the fault might be in the wire that leaves the working device.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part of a circuit showing low voltage, wire nuts, neutral wirewire nuts, neutral wire, bathroom lights: Hi. You probably have a disconnected neutral wire. The reading you are getting is feedback from the things still plugged in the circuit.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part of circuit suddenly went dead, ceiling fan light, upstairs hallwayceiling fan light, upstairs hallway, master bedroom bath: Your are going to need to check the voltage between hot (black) and neutral (white) and then check between the hot and the ground (bare or green) If there is voltage between 1 pair and the not the other you have lost the one leg most likely the neutral. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part of the electricity is out, porch light, light fanporch light, light fan, light bulbs: Hi. If the light fixture flashed in the bedroom, it is most likely the cause of the problem.

Perhaps you can disconnect it, and see if that helps. The breaker may be tripped, but it looks on, so turn it off and back on. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Part main house panel, ace hardware, bone yardace hardware, bone yard, lowe s: There would be no reason to keep a piece of tin like that.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial circuit 2-wire to 3-wire conversion, branch areas, amp breakerbranch areas, amp breaker, breakfast rooms: Even though the ground won t be used in the branch areas, leave it anyway. You may rewire those areas someday, and the ground will be needed. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial circuit has no current, wire nuts, switcheswire nuts, switches, circuits: Hi.

These things can be hard to track down. Somewhere in the circuit, there is a break. It could even be at a device that is working, because it could be the wire leaving the working device that is not working.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electrical loss to home, local power company, visible damagelocal power company, visible damage, rewire: It sounds like your main breaker might be going bad or have a bad connection either at the outside disconnect if you have one, or in the load center in the house. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electrical outage - no circuits tripped, lint trap, bleach solutionlint trap, bleach solution, circuit breakers: Hi. Put a tester between the two hot wires, either at the dryer plug or the circuit breaker.

Be careful not to touch any wires. If it lights, the dryer is defective. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electricity, continuity tester, open circuitscontinuity tester, open circuits, circuit breakers: You have a potentially dangerous situation.

This wiring could become so damaged a fire may result, but for now, I suspect the breaker has tripped so often that it is damaged and causing the current problem. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electricity, continuity tester, open circuitscontinuity tester, open circuits, circuit breakers: This needs to be inspected very carefully every wire on that circuit. Those wires that cannot be inspected need to be replaced as well as the circuit breaker serving this area.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electricity, continuity tester, open circuitscontinuity tester, open circuits, circuit breakers: Sounds like you have a plan. You might want to check that there is not a gfci type outlet ahead of the light. It could have tripped, and not taken anything else out.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial electricity, continuity tester, open circuitscontinuity tester, open circuits, circuit breakers: Sounds like you have multiple problems. First thing I d do is replace the breaker. Once you trip them several times, they don t work as intended.

Next, I d check all my joints as you suggest, but it s strickly hunt-n-peck. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial home power loss, crackling sound, power arccrackling sound, power arc, loose power: In the summer especially breakers go bad. I have replaced several main breakers.

It is rare but not unheard of. If it is the main, and you need to be certain....it requires the Power company to come out and pull the meter. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial loss of power, professional electrician, circuit breakersprofessional electrician, circuit breakers, interuption: A couple of things to check are; 1.

The breaker has failed. Carefully remove the panel cover and with a multimeter with the common probe on the neutral bar and the hot probe on the breaker terminal see if voltage is present. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial Power from A Circuit, master bathroom, receptacle wiringmaster bathroom, receptacle wiring, master bedroom: The breaker tripped because the combination of the printer and heater overloaded the circuit.

The second time it may have damaged the receptacle wiring. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial power, windstorm, breakerswindstorm, breakers, electrician: One of you main power feeds has probably come loose. It could be at: 1: Where the power company hits your house with their line.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial power failure, hot water heater, circuit breakershot water heater, circuit breakers, incoming power: It s possible that your main breaker is failing. It doesn t always fail completely, and one leg can go bad while the other functions normally. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial power loss, trial and error, color codingtrial and error, color coding, reds: Rob, I may have already answered this question, but you may not have got it, so I ll resend.

The color coding as you told me, doesn t seem correct. The light box should have all the white wires connected together, including the light. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial power outage to mobile home.

, tripped breakers, amp circuitstripped breakers, amp circuits, window air conditioner: If everything is so random, sometimes works, sometimes doesn t, it indicates a loose wire somewhere. Since so many ciruits are affected, your idea of the problem being in the breaker panel is a good one. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Partial power outage, gfi outlet, power outagegfi outlet, power outage, hallway: shut each breaker off, 1 at a time, wait about 5 seconds, then turn it back on.

If this doesn t solve the problem, look for a GFI outlet. This outlet will have 2 tabs on it. Push the test tab then the reset tab.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Patio Electrial Wiring, matching colors, light fixturematching colors, light fixture, ceiling fan: If the previous fixture was switched you will need to remove the switch and wirenut the 2 wires going to it together. Electrical Wiring in the Home: PC consumption, kilowatt hour, personnal computerkilowatt hour, personnal computer, experties: You pay EXTRA because you have a particular appliance? Is your bill figured on each appliance you have?

How can you be billed extra unless there s a meter installed on this appliance? Electrical Wiring in the Home: PC consumption, kilowatt hour, personnal computerkilowatt hour, personnal computer, experties: Let me introduce the missing computation. The voltage your system is running on.

I will give you the computation of my computer for a reference. The power supply for my tower is a 5 amp unit. 120volts at 5 amp is 600 watts.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: PC consumption, kilowatt hour, homework questionkilowatt hour, homework question, personnal computer: This sure sounds like a homework question, but this is how I derived the answer. 4 hrs per day X 30 days = 120 hrs 120 hrs X 600 watts (Av. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Peculiar lighting problem?

, lighting problem, hi boblighting problem, hi bob, electrical problem: Hi. Yes, it is possible to get enough electricity to light a test light, but not a regular bulb. This is usually caused by a wiring problem, not a bad switch though.

Try using a tester with a household bulb, to see what happens. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pendant light, electrical contractor, light switchelectrical contractor, light switch, canopy: Hi. It is always best to turn the power off at the breaker or fuse.

There is a possibility of current running in some of the wires with the switch off. Remember not to disconnect any wires that are in the box that do not connect to the fixture. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pendant lighting installation in ceiling, holes in the wall, lighting installationholes in the wall, lighting installation, hanging lights: 2 holes where the ceiling meets the wall.

Drill thru the double plate. A fishtape will help you get the wire to the ceiling box from the hole, and the wire should drop down OK to the outlet box. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Peplacement electric range hookup, hookup, hookupshookup, hookups, amps: Use the instructions for the 3 wire hookup.

Also, make sure the existing wire is big enough to handle the new range. The gauge of the wire should be marked on it somewhere. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Periodic single room power loss, bob osgood, master electricianbob osgood, master electrician, scanner light: Due to a cooling fan malfunction on our main computer system - we are temporarily down until the new fan arrives next week.

(I m on a remote system). Electrical Wiring in the Home: Perplexing electrical problem, holy cow, outdoor lampholy cow, outdoor lamp, bare wire: If the cable is the direct burial type, it is doubtful you can pull it out. If, however, the wire runs thru a pipe, you may be able to pull in a new wire by attaching it to the old wire and as you pull out the old, the new would pull in.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Petsafe Invisible fence acting up, lightning surge protector, invisible fencelightning surge protector, invisible fence, petsmart: Hi. In my job, I represent PetSafe to Petsmart. I don t know the answeer to your question, but when that happens, I call their toll free number, and someone either knows or finds out for me.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: PHOTOCELL CARRIAGE LAMPS, carriage lamps, electrical tapecarriage lamps, electrical tape, replaceable: Either your photocell is defective, or the wiring joints have come loose or are not making good contact. Taping the photocell over with electrical tape, would similate darkness, and fool your fixture into coming on. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Out-of-Phase Partial outages?

, partial outages, volt powerpartial outages, volt power, hi bob: Never heard that response form a utility company before. I think you might have talked to two new guys. I would say you have 240 volt power feeding your house (most common).

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phase tripping in 3 phase circuit, indicator bulbs, rotary typeindicator bulbs, rotary type, frequent problem: Ashok, Without actually seeing what you have its very difficult for me to say whats really going on. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone/cable TV wiring, cable tv wires, cable tv wiringcable tv wires, cable tv wiring, voltage cables: Sorry just responding....we ve been working 6 - 12 s and yesterday was my only day off - and then I had so much to catch up on..it really wasn t much of a day off. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone charging, allaboutcircuits, resistive circuitallaboutcircuits, resistive circuit, amps volts: You need to educate me again.

I asked how you would split out the 110 volts in my last reply. I know of NO phones that have a 220 240 or anything close to the primary. They may say 24 volts DC on the secondary to the phone.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone connection, daisy chain, original constructiondaisy chain, original construction, dc voltage: Richard: All regular phone lines have around 50volts DC voltage when you have a dial tone on them. When they ring the voltage jumps up to around 100 volts and very little current. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone jacks, apartment service, brown wiresapartment service, brown wires, many different ways: One phone pair is most commonly run on the green and red pair, second pair is usually yellow and black.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone Wiring, Exterior to Interior, side poles, hi bobside poles, hi bob, cable phone: Hi. The problem should not be complicated, and you should not have to climb on a ladder. The NID has two doors.

One opens for the customer. It has phone jacks inside of it. Unplug the wire that is there, and plug in a phone.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone wiring, ok shape, rj 45ok shape, rj 45, bob bob: Hi. One bit of advice I can give you from personal experience is to make sure you are wiring the right wires in the phone jack. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Phone wiring, ok shape, rj 45ok shape, rj 45, telephone man: I m sorry, but I can t help you.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Photo cell controlled lights stay on all the time, photocell, photo cellphotocell, photo cell, night lights: Well, a photcell is nothing more than a switch, and it could fail either in an open or closed position. One other possibility is that you have a shorted wire somewhere, that in effect, is bypassing the switching of the photocell. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Photo Eye to Contactor wiring, 3 legs, l23 legs, l2, t3: David You will need to hook it to the NC so that when the eye closes it puts power to the control circuit.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Photocell and switch combination, porch light, photocellporch light, photocell, switch sw1: By doing this you will damage the photocess as it will back feed voltage into the red wire back to the cell. It may or may not immediately fail, but it will in time. I would suggest installing a second light to control with a switch and one on the cell.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: "Piggyback" breakers - Good or Bad? , circuit breakers, don beckcircuit breakers, don beck, amp service: I have often used piggy back breakers, and have found them to be very reliable. Since you have a 200 amp main service, you should have no problems when adding more circuits.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pigtail mixup. , tripped breakers, blown fusestripped breakers, blown fuses, mixup: Ok tell me what wires, colors and locations are there and if you can determine where they go, or where they come from, where she removed the pigtail. And for more fun, have her do the work while you supervise.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pin Holes in Copper Water Line- Electrical Issue? , copper water lines, funnel shapecopper water lines, funnel shape, copper pipes: I ve been doing electrical work since 1974 and I ve never heard of anything like this. Electrical Wiring in the Home: PLUGIN CONTROLLED BY SWITCH, garbage disposal, hot wiregarbage disposal, hot wire, good luck: You will connect the incoming black (hot) wire to the white wire going to the switch.

Then the black from the switch will connect to the outlet. The incoming white wire will connect to the other side of the outlet. Electrical Wiring in the Home: PLZ help!

Outlet not working, aluminum wiring, wire nutsaluminum wiring, wire nuts, laundry room: Hi. It is a matter of checking for loose and bad connections. Remember that the problem could be at an outlet that is working, because it could be a loose wire leaving a working device going to the non-working outlets.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Placement of 200amp breaker panel, meter base, brick wallmeter base, brick wall, laundry room: Yes, as long as the breaker, or main disconnect, is at the point where the wire receives the power. In other words, your feeder to the house cannot have the main disconnect in the house...it must be in the garage where the feeder originates. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Placement of a GFI, gfci breaker, gfi outletgfci breaker, gfi outlet: Hi.

The GFCI will protect only that outlet and the outlets past that point, so it will not protect any outlets before it. Perhaps you can add another outlet lower before the 10 outlet, even if it is at the breaker box. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Planning electrical circuits, afci breaker, amp circuitafci breaker, amp circuit, electrical circuits: According to code, if these outlets are not for specific appliances(washer, refrigerator, etc...) or loads(waterbed heater, window a/c unit etc...), you can install an unlimited number of outlets on the circuit.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Planning for the future, ground cable, basement wallground cable, basement wall, gfci: A normal sized hot tub will require a 50 or 60 amp, 240volt circuit. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Planning a kitchen, voltage issues, american appliances, asian theateramerican appliances, asian theater, transformers: I m not sure about the Asian theater, but I know in Europe, where most everything is run on 220V, you can buy transformers to adjust the voltage. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plasma TV, surge suppressor, cable mansurge suppressor, cable man, new apartment: http://smr-home-theatre.org/Ground-Loops/ A bit in depth but read it.

I experience arcing also when connecting my coaxials form my satellite dish. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plasma TV Electrical Wiring, power conditioner, plasma tvpower conditioner, plasma tv, romex: Sure it is legal as long as the exposed prongs cannot be live. In other words, you have to unplug the source end first.

Just get some SO cord and put male ends on both ends. How you chose to prevent the hot male ends from being exposed is up to you. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic boxes, work boxes, plastic boxeswork boxes, plastic boxes, metal boxes: Hi.

Yes, plastic boxes are safe. Most do not have any clamps, (except old work boxes), so you have to staple the wire to the stud just before it enters the box. The wiring is the same except for the pigtailing.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic filters for light fixture, wooden cabinets, fluorescent light fixtureswooden cabinets, fluorescent light fixtures, plastic filters: This is a pretty hard thing to do. I have used a box cutter, scoring repeatedly through the plastic, unitl almost all the way. Then break apart.

I have also used a table saw, with the blade on backwards, but not too successfully. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic filters for light fixture, aluminum stock, razor knifealuminum stock, razor knife, wooden cabinets: Dave, You were on the right track. Scoring the plastic lens with a razor knife not a box cutter is the right way to cut the lenses to size.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic filters for light fixture, wooden cabinets, fluorescent light fixtureswooden cabinets, fluorescent light fixtures, plastic filters: If you re talking about those plastic lenses like you see in overhead commercial fixtures in a commercial setting, you cut them with a fine toothed blade, either with a jig saw or circular saw. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic filters for light fixture, carbide blade, wooden cabinetscarbide blade, wooden cabinets, fluorescent light fixtures: Dave, feel free to correct me if I m wrong, but I suspect you are referring to plastic panels that often come in 2x4 foot panels in varying patterns varying from prismatic to solid milk white. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plastic filters for light fixture, light diffusers, wooden cabinetslight diffusers, wooden cabinets, horrible pieces: ...haven t had the chance as of late to respond....we got buried in electrical work here the past couple days...have been straight out since our last communication ( also in the process of expanding my company).

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Please help me figure out a dryer cord...., copper conductor, abc warehousecopper conductor, abc warehouse, foot cord: UL label is the key If an item has a UL label, you have to check what the listing is for. If the listing is adequate to your use, then the manufacturer has stated the equipment is suitable for that use and UL has tested it to verify this. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug Burned, window air conditioner, watt heaterwindow air conditioner, watt heater, receptacle: Tom, I tried several times last night to respond but without success.

There must have been a lot of traffic. I would suspect that the first problem was a worn receptacle. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug fuses, plug fuse, amp plugplug fuse, amp plug, circuit breakers: If Home Depot or Lowes don t have them, then I doubt whether any other local store will have them.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug to hard wired? , bare wire, light fixturebare wire, light fixture, hardware stores: Hi. You would need a canopy to neatly and safely connect it to your ceiling.

For safety, you should run a bare wire through the chain (if it has chain) and ground the metal part of the fixture. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug-ins, proper test equipment, loose wireproper test equipment, loose wire, neutral wire:! That s a new one!

If the breakers aren t tripping it has to be a loose wire somewhere. Since you replaced the outlets, we can assume it s not in any of those boxes. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug outlet, receptacle, electrical outletsreceptacle, electrical outlets, electrical current: Sometimes an electrician will connect the wires to a receptacle in such a way that the electrical current will flow through the internal parts of the receptacle.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug rewiring question, bob osgood, master electricianbob osgood, master electrician, yellow strip: Just getting back in from the final electrical service call of the year (hopefully)...and what a busy year it has been. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug Switch Wiring, silver screw, brass screwsilver screw, brass screw, leviton decora: Sorry again this has taken a while. We need to determine which two terminals are for the switch.

It will either be the two black, or one of the black and the brass terminal. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug/Switch Wiring, incoming power, metal stripincoming power, metal strip, switch wiring: Virgil, switch receptacle combinations can be confusing. First there are two kinds of them.

One has the switch and the receptacle with common feeds. The other has the switch and receptacle with seperate feeds. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plug Type for Motor Amps, jet planer, motor ampsjet planer, motor amps, gauge size: Basically the NEC says everything feeding and protecting the motor shall be a min of 125% of the full load name plate amps.

If it is not a big deal to wire up see what your volt drop is, if any and that will tell you better than any other way. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plugging in my computer, extension chords, printer scannerextension chords, printer scanner, surge strip: It is not a good idea to use cords, but in this case, if you were to sure the shortest cord available, as well as the largest (#12 is good, #10 would be better), then I would think it would be ok to connect the surge strip to that cord. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plugging in a welder at home, guage wire, 12 gaugeguage wire, 12 gauge, circle formation: Evening Joe, K, your first question.

Ya, you can just change the recep to match your new welder. Assuming the plug is different. But make sure the welder doesn t pull more than 20A.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plugging my well pump into a generator, surge generator, cord connectorsurge generator, cord connector, franklin electric: As well as the two hot wires, there should have been a ground wire from the service panel to the pump. If there is, you would connect the ground and neutral wires together in the four wire cord connector, and then the two hot wires are left to connect. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Plugs burning out.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: POWER FLUCTUATIONS ON ONE CIRCUIT, power fluctuations, tv areapower fluctuations, tv area, entertainment equipment: When you turn on something else, like the fan, with the TV stuff on, the fan draws power away from the TV for a second or so which causes the TV to fade as they are very sensitive to electrical current. Electrical Wiring in the Home: POWER TO NEUTRAL, gfci outlet, ground busgfci outlet, ground bus, light fan: Joe, look in the breaker box and see if the neutral bus is bonded to the can. Electrical Wiring in the Home: POWER TO NEW FREESTANDING RANGE, freestanding range, voltsfreestanding range, volts, breaker panel: It sounds like you are only getting 120 volts to the unit and not the 240V it needs.

Was there a range plugged in before the new one? Electrical Wiring in the Home: POWER OUTAGE, local power company, electrical breaker boxlocal power company, electrical breaker box, patio doors: G morning Dariela, First try turning your main off and then back on.. If that doesn t work.. I wonder if you have a service leg out? Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pole Barn Electrical Problem, home improvement centers, ohmeterhome improvement centers, ohmeter, neutral wire: You can splice the neutral, depending on how extensive the damage is.

You may have to remove the damaged area and splice another wire into it which would be 2 spilces. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pole Barn Fuse Box, bob osgood, wire jumperbob osgood, wire jumper, ground bars: Thanks for the follow-up. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pole Barn Lost Electricity, ground disturbance, pole barnground disturbance, pole barn, cable run: Well you can splice it, but the problem will be in locating the place you need to splice.

They make some equipment to locate underground faults, but to my knowledge, it is not something they rent. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pole Barn Wiring question, amp breaker, amp serviceamp breaker, amp service, grunt work: 1) A 100 amp service will handle the things you named with ease, and give you plenty of headroom should you want to add anything in the future. 2) There is no limit of how many outlets you can put on a breaker.

Just using comment sense. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pole lamp wiring. , three way switch, light switchthree way switch, light switch, switches: I am a little confused.

It sounds like you only want each light controlled by its own separate switch, and not the three way set up as before, is that correct. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pond pump, frequency convertor, pond pumpfrequency convertor, pond pump, ebay: T. The 230 V operation will work OK with our voltage (220V), but the 50hz design of the motor will cause the motor to give out in a short period of time, if it runs at all.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Bonding, ground pool, electrical tradeground pool, electrical trade, metal components: There mustbe some way to accomplish this, but al the metal components, filter, pool ribbing, etc., should be grounded to the ground suplied from the source of your power...the GFCI. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool control panel, jandy pool, two timersjandy pool, two timers, 9 volt: Don: If nothing is working the way you described it it can be as simple as replacing a fuse on the circuit board. The fact you can turn the pump on with the breaker says to me the relay is closed in the unit and maybe you might have a programing issue.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool equipment on/off switch, pool equipment, hi johnpool equipment, hi john, circuit breaker: If this is the 2nd switch that has gone out, it may be because the switch isn t heavy enough duty to handle the load. Switches come with all kinds of different amp ratings. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Filter Wiring, pool filter, loose wirespool filter, loose wires, j box: Scott When you bring the conduit to the house and run it indoors, you should install a J-box 4Square 4x4.

Use the proper connectors. Then run a 12-2 to the panel. And install a 20 amp GFCI Breaker.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool gfci, gfci trips, gfci outletgfci trips, gfci outlet, pool filter: Cody, if the pool filter plugs into a gfci outlet, then you can just replace the gfci outlet. Follow directions on the box. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Heat Pump, pool heat pump, amp breakerpool heat pump, amp breaker, added resistance: 38 amp load and a 50 amp breaker sounds right, but what about your first comment about having two 30 s tied together for a total of 60 amps?

You can t have a 30 amp feeder supplying a 38.16 amp load. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool House Wiring, bob osgood, master electricianbob osgood, master electrician, underground piping: Hin Tim, Been working back to back 14+ hour days...have had NO spare time as of late...sorry for the delay - totally out of my hands. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool heater, bob osgood, master electricianbob osgood, master electrician, nec article: Good Morning John, Based on your description...this is a straight 240 volt heater (most pool heaters are) and will not require a neutral wire to be run.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool heaters, nec code, pool heaternec code, pool heater, pool heaters: I don t have my code book with me this long weekend, so I suggest you look for this rule in Article 680 of the NEC. I will try to post a follow-up later on next week, after Monday. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Lights, electrical test data, gfci breakerelectrical test data, gfci breaker, pool lights: Stopped by the office for lunch...saw your follow-up come in.

Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool light, pool light, pool deckpool light, pool deck, electrical components: My first guess is the light has leaked and water has reached the bulb, shorting out the socket. If you can take the screws out of the bulb holder, you should be able to pull the light up onto the pool deck and research it. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump, volt device, wall laddervolt device, wall ladder, volt circuit: I agree with the need for two separate circuits.

One will be the 240 volt circuit with the double 15 amp GFI that teh pump and salt water generator can be connected to, and the other will be a single pole GFI for the 120 volt receptacle. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump, gauge wiring, hp motorgauge wiring, hp motor, play factor: Here are some of the answers to your questions: 1. Voltage supplied varies from region to region.

This is why they talk about 208-240 volts and 110-120 volts. Your supply voltage should fall into this range. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump Electrics, bench test, pool pumpbench test, pool pump, loud noise: If that motor worked before, it should work now.

Try removing the motor again, and just hook up the new light and see if the light operates OK without the motor being wired into the circuit. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump/Intermatic Timer, wire nuts, pool pumpwire nuts, pool pump, wire nut: Tim, You advised that you capped the white 2 wire and also used it as a load wire. I assume this is a typo and you really capped the the white 3 wire.

If so, your wiring is correct. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump and New Shed Electrical, pvc conduit, inch pvcpvc conduit, inch pvc, pool pump: Tom Your welcome What you can do is run a line to the shed in 1 inch PVC Conduit with 3 #8 wires and 1 #10 Ground. Then in the shed you can install a small sub panel.

The hook up what you want in the shed. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool Pump, volt device, wall laddervolt device, wall ladder, volt circuit: Well first you ll need protection for both the pump and the salt water generator. Just because 7 + 3 is less than the 15 amp breaker, doesn t count.

You ll need to run a separate circuit for each device. Electrical Wiring in the Home: Pool pomp switch, pool equipment, water pipespool equipment, wate