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if your looking for mechanical protection why not pull individual wires and put a 3/8's conduit under the floor to the location, toss a jb on the other end and run romex to wherever you need to go or use an emt to flex connector and run the individual wire right to your connection point.

hit the nail right on the head.....get it fixed fast. Thats why your getting a power reading on the bad leg but it's turning off when you switch something on. The 120V is comming around through the 240V appliances but there's not enough juice there the actually supply any current. A bad leg from...

siemens makes a nice panel for this too....it isolates the neutral as well as both hots by using a three pole breaker with a mechanical interlock and you can size your breakers as you want. Sells for around $180 in canada.

A thought i had being as your in a complex is perhaps the original contractor stretched things to the limit....meaning he may have gone over the safe distance for voltage drop. Source voltage will fluctuate and if he's just over the length of a safe run things most likely would work fine most of...

I can't confirm this as i'm no expert on the NEC but if there's no washbasin in the laundry then you don't need the gfci's(CEC not NEC). And there's no space requirments between the washer and any switches. Your over analyzing abit i think. Kudos for trying to make things as safe as possible...

shouldn't matter at all to use em both...why buy a straight breaker when you've already got a gfci there. It's a bit redundant but alot cheaper in your case.

some schooling would help but if you want i can go through step by step on how things work....the beauty of doing an apprenticeship is that you get paid right from the start.....it's not much but it's better than nothing :)

oddly enough after contacting the manufacturer and a few trade friends of mine and putting our head together we found out that the ground absolutely has to be connected for this type of ballast. They've had this problem with the equipment before and what essentially happens is that with the grid...

from what i can see from the pictures it looks like your right HJ....looks like the original meter was located at the front of the house under where the temp connection is attached to the utility side. So in that sense they did originally run the shortest path. My money is still on them showing...

that's most definately a temp set up. The power company is indeed responsible for the meter location....your friend may find that when they show up they just tell him to move it back. You don't move the meter without their say so. pretty much everything line side of the meter base is under the...

s'ok...got it figured out...thanks for the help guys and or gals :)

i've got an update...i had a thought that perhaps all the bulbs weren't seated properly so i went back through and sure enough found one that wasn't. unfortunately this didn't fix the problem. I tested the circuit with both the ground open and closed. Both instances there was zero amps running...

i was refering to this. Also just because there's number tens there doesn't mean that you should use a 30A breaker. You would need to know what's on the other end of the line. It may be an appliance that's required to have a 20A breaker as protection and they just ran the wrong size wire...

two things to note though are that in theory anyways if there was a short once the ground was connected it should have tripped the breaker. The other is that i'm working off the same pricipal as electronic musical equipment. I know that in house that have no ground you can get shocked off them...

small FYI....40A circuit should have number 8's not 10's

i'm pretty sure i recall somewhere that a pure lighting load can be loaded to 100%.....having said that i'm not positive and the general rule of thumb is always 80%....which is 12A not 14A as mentioned above. We normally run a max of 11 lights on a circuit.

new here and had a very strange thing happen today. The place where my father works is having some renovations done. A new dropped ceiling was put in and some 2 by 4 lights installed. The poor fellow doing the work got tagged off the ceiling grid so i said i'd take a look at it for them as i'm a...