Recent content by Chuck Shaughnessy

Around 75 feet.

I will be running a water line from an existing line at a frost-free hydrant to a new greenhouse. There are SO MANY new options for type of piping - PVC, flexible PVC, PE, PEX ... and on and on. Can someone recommend thoughts on best piping to use for this? Probably 3/4 inch but perhaps 1...

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Can anyone recommend the best underground splice it - for 2 AWG aluminum wire. I want a really good one so I don't have to do this again!

FOUND IT!! Just outside the barn is a water hydrant and a lot of rocks. The wires are underground very close to the hydrant and I have had to dig near there in the past replacing hydrant parts. I have never noted a nick in the electrical wire, but I thought I would dig it up and see if it...

There is no conduit, and it is direct bury aluminum cable. I can try to read the markings tomorrow and see what is there, but it was done by a licensed electrician and permitted and inspected so I am guessing its fine. I do think a current leak could explain it. If there is some impedance in...

The source is a main breaker box at the house and the two hot wires come out of a 100A breaker and ...yes, at the source they are 240V. Today I disconnected the line from the box just to ensure that there wasn't a low impedance path to ground in the box and ... no change in the 5V. I suspect...

At the other end it is 120V. There is no splice - at least no an intentional one. Perhaps a rock has pierced the sheathing and created a current leak and/or corrosion - but, no idea where.

Back from travel. Picture attached this time. The wire seems to be aluminum but appropriately coated with the anti-oxidant goop. I have moved all of the breakers onto one side of the line so there is an effective 120V that is working fine. The other side is not loaded and measures 5V...

The wire may be aluminum, I am not certain. I will have to check when I am back home. It may be that there was no anti-oxidation stuff put on the wire lug and there is some oxidation in there causing an impedance problem. Definitely something to check on.

I am traveling until Thursday but will post some pictures when I return. Definitely measuring from the buss lug and not on the other side of the breaker. I did remove the cover and it would be cleaned up in there a bit - some bugs and stuff - but I think I got that stuff out of the way in the...

Nope - I get it all. It went in about 15 years ago. No conduit. Direct buried cable. I don't think there are any underground splices - just a cable about 100 feet long. House breaker box has a 100 amp breaker - this feeds into a subpanel in the barn. One leg in the barn measures 120V...

I have power going from my house to my barn (100 amp service). One leg is solid 120v. The other is roughly 5V. Measurements are without load on either leg. At the house end both are 120V. Can this be a connection, corrosion, or breaker problem or is it a problem in the cable below the...