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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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60A 120V draw spikes for house
The power company installed a monitoring device at the street where the main power connects to the runs to the house and said they saw something weird with some large 120V load draws (looks like aroun …
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Portable generators - high THD (total harmonic distortion) ways to solve
I was looking at portable generator options and it seems like very few have THD below 5%. Is there a good (and reasonably priced) approach to cleaning up the power by using some sort of power conditi …
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Doorbell transformer: broken if low voltage reading on multimeter?
I put my multimeter to DC V mode and touched the two screws on our doorbell transformer but I just get a reading in millivolts which is way below the 19V it says. Does this mean it's not working or am …
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Hot line impulse >50V and lights flickering off - thoughts on solution?
I have an issue where ceiling LED lights (recessed or ceiling fan) will either momentarily shut off or go bright and then shut off before recovering shortly thereafter - it also impacts the ceiling fa …
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Single phase 240V generator hooking up to whole house
I'm considering a portable generator which provides 240V power to run both 240V and 120V items in the house during an outage, but it says the generator is single phase. Is this correct for what is ne …
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Dual fuel generator - using natural gas on propane input
Instead of using a conversion kit to make a generator be able to take natural gas through the gasoline side of it (e.g. Nash Fuel or Century Fuel Products), is there a way to feed natural gas in throu …
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Forward phase / reverse phase LED dimmer switch inverted - house wiring messed up?
Does this indicate there could be some incorrect wiring in the house or some other electrical problem (the terminology reverse-phase and forward-phase made me wonder)? …
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Generator - bonded neutral connecting to house
I have a bonded neutral generator that I plan to hook up to the whole house using a 50A cable which includes a ground wire (Conntek TES1450-20). I understand that in theory I should first modify the …
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Doorbell resistor across front & trans - safe for Nest? Purpose?
Any idea what purpose this resistor serves in our doorbell chime and if it's okay to keep it on there when installing a Nest doorbell or if I should remove it? I'm assuming this is a resistor but am n …
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Connecting portable generator to house 30A to 50A inlet
I have a floating neutral inverter generator (low THD - Firman model WH02942) with a TT-30R female receptacle that I'd like to connect to a L14-50 male inlet on our house (GE model T050N). I was looki …
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50-amp inlet able to be used with 30-amp generator via adapter?
I'm thinking of putting in an inlet box so as to be able to use a generator if the power goes out (with interlock too for safety).
I'm not sure what generator I'm going to get yet, but would like to b …
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Install RV 30A outlet to code
I'm planning to DIY install an TT-30R outlet (Amazon item B000BQMX3K) using an existing construction box (Amazon item B00H8NUVRO) within a few feet of a main subpanel with 10/2 wire and a 30A 120V bre …
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Testing 3-way switch which was converted to 2-way by wiring in basic switch
I have a smart light switch (Lutron Caseta model PD-6ANS) which was installed on a 3-way circuit with the other end supposedly wired so that it functions as a single non-3-way switch (this is because …
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How do I attach a weatherproof socket to a homemade outdoor light?
Wondering what the best way is to attach a weatherproof bulb socket to the metal strap sphere seen below. It should also support a lightweight bulb cover on the socket or bulb.
One challenge is there' …
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Do AFCI and GFCI protect against cheap equipment and bad wiring?
Generally I only buy electrical fixtures (lights, fans, etc.) from a reputable seller out of concern for fire risks, but if AFCI breakers and GFCI receptacles are installed, would that eliminate any potential …
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