Before we bought the house a contractor installed a sump pump in the crawl space. I think that was 8 yrs ago.
During a deluge I had a river running through the garage and out the door. I found out the GFCI receptacle had popped and would not reset. Temporary I ran an ext cord until I could replace the GFCI.
Good so far.
Thru some mishaps, unrelated and unimportant, I realized the contractor had cut the 230v line running to the HVAC air handler and installed the GFCI for the 115v sump pump. Not powered the pump/GFCI from one 125v leg to ground, but between the 230v legs. That’s prob why the GFCI fried and would not reset.
But the pump is original - I can’t believe it’s been running on 230v for how many years??
What happens in that case? I’d think that the motor windings would fry?? No??
side note:
the 230v line to the HVAC is 10/2 romex. There wasn’t enough slack to get the receptacle in so he extended it - put in two boxes and 12/2 romex between them!!!! What a dumass.
They had to have shut off the breaker to do it and clearly would have seen it was a double breaker, ie, 230v that they were cutting into.
During a deluge I had a river running through the garage and out the door. I found out the GFCI receptacle had popped and would not reset. Temporary I ran an ext cord until I could replace the GFCI.
Good so far.
Thru some mishaps, unrelated and unimportant, I realized the contractor had cut the 230v line running to the HVAC air handler and installed the GFCI for the 115v sump pump. Not powered the pump/GFCI from one 125v leg to ground, but between the 230v legs. That’s prob why the GFCI fried and would not reset.
But the pump is original - I can’t believe it’s been running on 230v for how many years??
What happens in that case? I’d think that the motor windings would fry?? No??
side note:
the 230v line to the HVAC is 10/2 romex. There wasn’t enough slack to get the receptacle in so he extended it - put in two boxes and 12/2 romex between them!!!! What a dumass.
They had to have shut off the breaker to do it and clearly would have seen it was a double breaker, ie, 230v that they were cutting into.