Questions tagged [electrical]
Distribution and use of electricity throughout the home. Electrical standards vary greatly worldwide, so you need to provide your location in your question or profile to ensure you get answers that are relevant to you. Posting photographs of wiring junctions or drawing a wiring diagram and posting it is also highly recommended.
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How can I remotely control individual baseboard heaters?
I have a vacation home that sits over winter with electric baseboard heating. When the summer season starts up I want to be able to make sure the baseboard heating is turned off via the breaker so ...
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My Harbor Breeze fan stopped working, the lights still go on [closed]
My harbor breeze fan stopped working but the lights still go on. What should I do
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How should I connect my light with two cables in the box? [duplicate]
I have been searching far and wide for video tutorials for how to install a pendant light when there are 2 set of ground, black, and white wires coming out the ceiling box. Is this a new type of setup ...
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Can I run a second 175 Amp sub-panel from a 200 Amp main panel?
I have a 200 amp main service at a property I recently bought. It’s feeding a 175 amp breaker panel at a small home and garage. I was wondering if it was okay to run another 175-200 amp panel from the ...
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My new electric kitchen stove stopped working
I have a house that was built in the fifties,it has heavy wiring that comes from behind a cabinet for the stove. The plug in is on heavy wiring, is a three plug and matches the one that comes out from ...
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Bypass Tuya “smart” fan controller
I just bought a fan that has a Tuya controller that uses a remote/wifi to control the fan and lights (see picture from instructions). The previous fan assembly was controlled by two switches, ...
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Installing gfci on chained 2-prong receptacles in a room
I have 4 2-prong receptacles in my room and I want to get them converted to 3 prong so that I don't have to use any adaptor for my devices. I opened them and saw that there is no ground wire in these(...
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Can I use a siemens type qaf2 breaker to replace a siemens type mp-at breaker? [closed]
can I replace a siemens 15 amp type MP-AT breaker with a 15 amp siemens type QAF2 breaker
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Turning a 3 way circuit into a 4 way
I have an existing 3-way circuit that i'd like to add a 3rd switch to. Current signal chain: Power -> Light -> 3 way switch (common red, traveler above common white, traveler red on the other ...
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Disabling Switched Outlet at the Switch
I currently have a 3-switch box (as a single unit) that controls fan, fan light, and one switched outlet, but want to disable to switched outlet and leave the other two functional. The switch seems to ...
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Hot Ground Reversed when Upstream GFCI Trips
Remodeling a kitchen and ran into an piece of romex coming out of a wall like an "extension cord" and came for advice on a previous post.
I moved the "extension cord" to the line ...
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Junction box on 1x2 running board?
Is it kosher to put junction boxes directly on 1x2 running board, like this?
It doesnt look right, being wider than the running board. Also looks like the running board should be further away so the ...
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What are the spare wires seen in the attic, if not for lighting?
I am trying to understand where all the T&E wires in my attic go to.
I have 3 rooms (Bedroom, office, spare room) on the 1st floor (below the attic), plus a hallway near the stairs. All the wires ...
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Outlet suddenly not working
Came home from vacation to find five outlets not working all of a sudden. It's a 9 year old house. Checked breakers, loose wiring. Only different is one outlet is only wired for the bottom plug but ...
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How to bring 1/0 wire through foundation below grade?
I’m building an off-grid cabin in California. I have an array of solar panels that feed into an inverter and batteries in a small utility shed, connected to a 150A main panel. I want to run 125A into ...
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My range outlet is lying on the floor
I would like to replace my old electric range but the outlet it is plugged in is lying on the floor (under the range) and not attached to the wall (see the picture). Does anybody know if this is a ...
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Electric issue only two wires [closed]
enter image description hereCan I get some advice?
I’ve got a ceiling light trying to replace only two wires coming through conduit housing. Hot and white.
Electricity is present but light does not ...
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earthing a metal fixture
I have a metal ceiling rose and a metal bulb holder.
The bulb holder is earthed and I'm using three core electrical wire so will be earthing the bulb holder but the metal ceiling rose has a soldered ...
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Does every single ground wire in a box have to connect to every other ground wire within the confines of that same box on one branch circuit?
I have a 3-gang plastic box with six conductors that enter the box; three line-side, three load-side, and they pass through the three switches in pairs of two.
The load-side wires are all on the same ...
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What size breaker panels do I need for two small buildings?
I have 2 buildings I'm wanting to supply power to strictly as a service and not adding the service from another source. The first building is more like a tiny home wanting to install 14 outlets, 4 ...
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Do UK to Tokyo electrical adapters exist? [closed]
As part of my upcoming internship program in Tokyo, I am in need of adapters suitable for the Tokyo region. Given that I currently reside in the UK, I specifically require adapters compatible with the ...
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Help with wiring up new bathroom exhaust fan
I removed an old Nutone bathroom fan from the ceiling. I'm installing a new Nutone fan. I can get the fan to blow when I connect the fan black and black hot wire, and fan white and white neutral wire ...
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Running lights off of a 50amp spa
I have a 2-pole 50amp breaker in my panel supplying my sauna external controller with 4 wire(control unit doesn't use the neutral so just capped of inside it). I want to add a couple led lights inside....
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Replacing light fixture on switch, 1 hot wire powering 2 rooms
I had to replace the light fixture in my bedroom thats on a switch. There is 1 hot wire that powers the bedroom light and also 2 other rooms. after installing the new light i became a bit confused on ...
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Best Way to Lengthen the Romex 10 wire from the Wall to the Stove
I'm hooking up a ceramic stove and the last installer ran Romex 10 w/o armor from the drywall thru cabinets to a J box under the stove. From the J box he used BX to the stove. It worked that way for ...
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Drill hole to mount metal junction box
I am trying to install a metal junction box behind existing drywall. I cut a hole in the drywall next to the stud, and want to screw the left side of the box into the stud, but the holes that are pre-...
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Why does only one of my three-way switches work suddenly?
I have two toggle wall switches at opposite room ends that control a ceiling light fixture. Only one switch (main) now works for off and on of fixture, the other will only turn fixture off not on.
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Safe, easy way to tap into taut NM cable in wall?
I am trying to add a wall sconce. I determined that there is wiring coming down from the attic crawlspace to receptacle low in the wall. I knocked a hole in the drywall as shown above, where it has ...
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Does Panasonic Inverter with Nanoe X technology harm electronics? [closed]
I may be looking to get a new split type air condition soon to replace my old one but it will be positioned near my computer. My concern is that according to this video, this type of split type ...
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Will running a wire from a PSU screw to my metal window sill do anything?
I recently moved into an old apartment with no ground in the wiring. An electrician checked, and it needs to be retrofitted for ground. This requires approval. In the meantime, I need my work station ...
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Does 100A MSP upgrade to 200A service panel REQUIRE a Meter Upgrade?
I'm working on an 8 slot 100A MSP that is a replacement for a fuse box. There are double taps and other abnormalities that have lead to power outages in some rooms of a client's home. I thought to ...
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120 outlet in an outdoor electrical cabinet
I have an existing 110V outlet behind a weatherproof cover in my side yard, on the exterior wall. Above it the backyard patio company has installed a small metal outdoor electrical box (6”x12”x5”) ...
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I am changing a light switch and need your help
Ok I am trying to install a Wifi switch 2 on 1 that I bought. If you see in picture 1 . The switch has 4 cables. A hot, a red one, and two load ones that goes to a light in the garage and by the ...
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Does the NEC allow chaining wire connectors within a single junction box?
In this box, I have a green ground wire nut with a through-wire connected to the metal box ground nut that connects it to four other ground wires on conductors entering the box. I connected three more ...
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1800's home remodel [closed]
We are remodeling the kitchen in our 1885 house. The attached picture is the beams (joists) we uncovered this week.
I love them, but not sure how to remove cross supports and still support the 2nd ...
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Advice on Selecting and Installing LED Strip Lights for an IKEA Billy Bookcase with Glass Doors [closed]
I am looking to enhance my white IKEA Billy bookcase, which has glass doors, by adding RGBWIC LED strip lights underneath the shelves. I plan to run the strips along the underside of each shelf and ...
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Can I replace a 200amp disconnect (non-fused) with a 100amp fused disconnect? The breaker feeding the 200amp disco. Is 200amps [closed]
Replacing 200 amp non fused disconnect with 100 amp fuses disconnect
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Why does another switch's light get brighter when neutral and ground touch?
I have a breaker with at least two light switches on it upstairs. There has been random flickering with LED bulbs, so today I decided to change out the fixtures to see if that was part of the problem. ...
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Electric water heater tank booster [closed]
My tank booster is set to 120 degrees but the water isn’t hot enough. I want to increase the temperature. I tried using the Allen wrench and turning it counter clockwise but it won’t budge. Am I doing ...
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How to check 240V ground and neutral wires are wired properly?
Edit: Never mind. I found a 24 amp charger with a 10-30 plug for only slightly more $ than the 14-40 charger I was planning on getting, so I'm going to leave the outlet as-is.
I turned of the 30A ...
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Can a 200amp load panel be added next to my meter box and then feed my main 100amp panel?
I currently live in a 4 units condos building. On my side of the building we got a double meter box. Here’s the exact model
The ground floor condo has a 200amp main panel and mine is a 100amp.
First ...
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15A versus 20A circuit for floor tile heat
OK here is my situation. Adding tile floor to a 50 SF bath, want to put heat under the tiles. The manufacturer says the heating system (pulling 3-4 amps max) MUST be on its own circuit and be GFCI ...
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Will a switched neutral cause an open neutral on the remainder of the circuit?
I have 2 switches that have a neutral(white) wire attached as well as a hot(black).When I unhooked the white the switch doesn't work ( light doesn't come on).I found this during tracing an open ...
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Wiring for a smart switch
I've got a Smart Switch which sits behind a standard dumb rocker.
My issue is that I have the loop going through the switch rather than the ceiling rose. This has confused me and I can't seem to get ...
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Why does a light switch blow fuse when over certain voltage not affected by other usage on same fuse
I just moved into an apartment that has ceiling wired up but no light fixture installed. So I brought a rail led light fixture from home depot and tried to install it. When I turn it on the switch, it ...
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Ceiling fan outlet is hot
I'm replacing a ceiling fan.
Inside the ceiling fan outlet box, there is one white electrical cable with a Red, white, copper and black wire coming out of the electrical cable.
The ceiling fan I am ...
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Why might a tone generator not indicate continuity between two wires on a circuit while a multimeter does
I'm in the process of familiarizing myself with some tools for electrical projects as I work my way through a number of renovations on my house. At the moment, I'm trying to identify a neutral wire in ...
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GFCI keeps randomly tripping/ exposed wiring in breaker box [duplicate]
I've been having multiple random trips at my GFCI outlet in my food trailer. I have cleaned the outlet and made sure no moisture/ dust was present. I also rechecked the wiring on this outlet and it's ...
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Breaker Trips with No Load
I have a 30amp breaker that supplies a well pump in a detached shed that started tripping earlier this week. The wire is 10/2 UF direct burial and is likely original to the house (55 years old).
To ...
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Will my computer trip a circuit breaker in Japan with another appliance load?
I understand that Japan uses 100V and the maximum power available is around 1400W. Currently, my computer runs on a 1300W PSU. When I move over there, I'll need to downgrade, so I'm wondering about ...