Electrical current disappeared - why?
 

"Darro" wrote in message
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Hi,

Can anyone tell me why the current to a single-pole wall toggle switch
that controls a ceiling track lighting assembly would suddenly go from
normal strength (lights working properly) to just a trickle (lights
not illuminating) even though no electrical work of any kind had been
done in the suite recently and the breaker is at the "on" position?

Thanks in advance for your replies,
Darro

I have seen wire connections "go bad" twice in my house. One was a wire
nut in a kitchen ceiling fixure box which served as the J-box for half of
the kitchen. In another case, a connection to a bathroon switch for the
fan stopped "working." In each case, I just "re-did" the work without
replacing any component. So that's twice in about 12 years in a good
sized home.

Oh, on another occasion a connection to a duplex outlet "went bad" and I
didn't catch on until the outlet overheated from a minor load. In that case
the outlet had to be replaced.

The house wiring was/is a mix of original stuff, DIY from the prevous owner,
and my DIY. I might have been resonsible for the bathroom problem. The
others were like that when we took over the place.