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I am really stumped. My husband and I own a double wide. Yesterday we changed out a double light switch that had a dimmer to just a double switch.
We had no issues at all until today. More than 24hrs later.
We were attempting to put in 2 pot lights off 1 of the switches and pulled the wire down and a few minutes later some of the lights in our home started flickering.
They flickered 2x and less than 45 seconds later they flickered again. My husband moved that hanging wire again and then the breaker tripped.
Now we only have 1 outlet in our Florida room that is working from that breaker. Everything else is dead.
We used our non-contact voltage tester and we have no power running to that double switch, master bathroom outlet, front carport outlet or the master bathroom outlets.
Any advise or guidance on what could be happening would be awesome. Thank you in advance.

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Flickering can be from a short or open but the breaker tripping is a short (overload).

I had had an apprentice wire up some new motion lights they worked for a day and died,

he did not want to try to troubleshoot but the hot had broke loose and shorted on the metal box.

It can happen go back to each box and check the wires a wire can pull out of a wire nut or break off and not be one you touched but in a group that was moved (it happens).

With the breaker tripping there will probably be evidence of a short of some type.

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  • Giving it a try right now. Thank you so much
    – Sally Mead
    Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 19:02
  • Now it is working but I have not changed anything yet. I have to have a short or something
    – Sally Mead
    Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 19:10
  • The wires in a box probably have a skinned wire touching another wire like a ground or the side of a metal box, I had that happen to me at the hospital just last week when stuffing wires back into a metal box.
    – Ed Beal
    Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 19:18
  • @SallyMead If you did not find the problem with the first pass, recheck again, it can be a small nick in the wire covering that is hard to find.
    – crip659
    Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 21:14
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    So we took it out of the wall, checked it over THOROUGHLY well at least we thought. Hooked it back up, pushed it back in the plastic drywall box. Lights and plugs worked, pushed in the screws to attach switches to box, still worked, got to the 2nd switch (the one that game me problems the first go round) and everything worked until it got a centimeter from it being all the way in and boom “the light and outlets” go back off!!! Uggghhh
    – Sally Mead
    Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 21:32

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