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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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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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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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Dimmable pool color changing LED lights
For whatever reason, color changing lights for pools are not dimmable (at least Pentair and Jandy brands - e.g. Microbrite Color) - the manual official states as such and warns about damage.
Only the …
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Incandescent bulb into circuit to reduce LED flicker When Dimming
The official Lutron support page for flickering LED bulbs says the following. Is anyone able to explain why that would help stabilize the LED lights and if there's anything similar that can be introd …
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Bonded neutral generator - connecting to house and removing bond in main panel instead of wi...
When connecting a generator to a house, since it's a bonded neutral generator, I was told that I need to first remove the bond within the generator since there's already a house bond.
I was going to d …
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Garage door fingerprint reader - opener compatibility issue with old hard-wired opener butto...
To get everything working I ended up connecting the two terminals of the receiver to two of the button terminals of an extra remote control I had. Now when the receiver gets a signal it activates the …
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Garage door fingerprint reader - opener compatibility issue with old hard-wired opener butto...
I want to connect a Chamberlain 942FP / 379LM fingerprint reader garage door "keypad" to a Chamberlain B750T (I think a.k.a. B750) opener. Unfortunately the fingerprint reader is much older than the …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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