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Mark Henry · 12-08-2011, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Red88Carrera

If the white wire is a conductor, it needs to be identified by a marking onto itself. Is there a marking on it that is not visable in the pic?

White number band.

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

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Originally Posted by futuresoptions

Hey Todd,

Not trying to freak you out, and I am sure the electrician will find the problem, but the last person that I knew of that was having these kind of issues was on their brand new home. It took about three years but it eventually started a fire and destroyed part of the home. What was found to be the culprit was a short caused by nails that were nailed in through wiring/insulation when they were putting up the sheet rock.

I'm home now and have turned on some lights and no issues. The power was turned off (clock flashing the time) so I'm assuming the Edison guy redid the connection at the pole. We'll see if anything flickers tonight. It was just odd as I'd never heard the "bad connection at the pole will show up on every other circuit on the panel" thing before. But beyond a simple circuit diagram with a batter and a resistor I get lost

Zeke · 12-08-2011, 06:27 PM

Todd, one half the circuits misbehaving is a bad connection on one of the hot legs. All lights flickering is a bad connection on the neutral unless some jackleg wired all light circuits on one leg (which is improper).

sammyg2 · 12-09-2011, 07:29 AM

you should re-wire everything. 220, 221, whatever it takes.

Joeaksa · 12-09-2011, 08:59 AM

Well? Any changes or flickering today?

Would still like to see the service box checked.

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

Nope - everything seems good. Not a flicker to be seen. Did some recording last night and everything was clean. Life is good for the moment.

dipso · 12-09-2011, 10:50 AM

Bingo!

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Could this have anything to do with the high winds last week. You're in Santa Monica, right?

I think several thousand people in LA are still without power.

Maybe it's Edison and the grid, not your house specifically. Has it been going on for more than 6 or 7 days. That was when the winds screwed a lot of thing up.

PFFOG · 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by nostatic

............ It was just odd as I'd never heard the "bad connection at the pole will show up on every other circuit on the panel" thing before.................

I mentioned that in a previous post, if you look at a panel each leg "leap frogs" as it goes down the panel. This is why a 22ov breaker is side by side, it grabs "both" hot legs, so any issue from the transformer, and ANY of the connections through the OUTPUT connections of the main breaker will cause the malfunction on every circuit, which is at every other breaker.

Generally breakers directly across from each other are also on the same leg.

For basic understanding a 220V supply has TWO 110 volt legs, that are out of phase by 180 degrees. So voltage between the 2 hot legs is 220v, but between EITHER leg and the neutral is 110 v.

So 220 comes in through the main breaker and down the 2 buss', that skip every other space in the panel. A 110v circuit grabs one side and the neutral, a 220v circuit grabs both hot legs.