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Home wiring: is 47V between neutral and ground OK?
Hi guys, Many of you hit the nail right on the head: The ground is, for some reason, floating. I will hire an electrical contractor to look into this dangerous situation (I have found other wiring idiocies in this house, so I'll have him check everything for safety). Thanks again! -Bill |
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Home wiring: is 47V between neutral and ground OK?
On Dec 10, 8:04*am, Bill wrote:
Hi guys, * Many of you hit the nail right on the head: *The ground is, for some reason, floating. *I will hire an electrical contractor to look into this dangerous situation (I have found other wiring idiocies in this house, so I'll have him check everything for safety). Thanks again! -Bill well, you can fix this yourself if it is just a loose connection. Find the circuit affected at the breaker panel. Identify the cable connected to that circuit and check to make sure that both the neutral and ground wires are securely connected to the neutral/ground bus in the panel and that the screws are tight. (cut the breaker off before you mess with the neutral; if there's a load on there you may get a spark, and you don't want to flinch and hit something hot.) If you're not 100% confident in your skills skip this step and call an electrician because there is stuff in that panel that is always hot and I don't want to read about you electrocuting yourself. What you can also do is cut the breaker off and find out what lights and receptacles are on that circuit (no longer work.) Then after you have those all identified and tagged, start testing each one with an incandescent test light, H-N and H-G. Should light both ways, as you already know. If it does not at ALL devices your problem is likely at the panel. If it does on some but not others, check in the area of where it stops working (last device that works/first device that does not) you may not know exactly how the circuit is run so you may have to open up a couple boxes. Make sure that at every box all grounds that enter and leave the box are spliced together, bonded to the box, and connected to the green ground screw on the device (if present.) If you think you've found the problem, fix what you've found, cut the power back on, test again. Hopefully this will help. good luck, Nate |
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Home wiring: is 47V between neutral and ground OK?
Bill wrote:
Hi guys, Many of you hit the nail right on the head: The ground is, for some reason, floating. I will hire an electrical contractor to look into this dangerous situation (I have found other wiring idiocies in this house, so I'll have him check everything for safety). Thanks again! -Bill Welcome to the joys of owning an older home. You never know what surprises are lurking, keeps life interesting. |
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Home wiring: is 47V between neutral and ground OK?
On Dec 10, 12:58*pm, James Sweet wrote:
Bill wrote: Hi guys, * Many of you hit the nail right on the head: *The ground is, for some reason, floating. *I will hire an electrical contractor to look into this dangerous situation (I have found other wiring idiocies in this house, so I'll have him check everything for safety). Thanks again! -Bill Welcome to the joys of owning an older home. You never know what surprises are lurking, keeps life interesting. Ain't that the truth. I found some fun stuff at my place, like a 14AWG hall lighting circuit connected to a kitchen receptacle, which was fed from the receptacle in the basement for the clothes washer, which was on a 20A breaker. Good times. And you wonder why my lights dimmed every time someone used the microwave. (don't worry; I fixed it.) Also bootlegged grounds all over the damn place, I'm still picking away at those. I was happy when I saw the grounded receptacles at the initial walk through and they all tested OK with a cheap plug in tester; now, not so much. nate |
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