Identify power source-UPDATE
Son bought a house that is several years old and is updating outside light fixtures. On the far side of the house is a GFCI that has no power. On a brick column near it is a light fixture that I was g...
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wa8yxm wrote:
If your voltage detector found no voltage, but the wires arced. FAULTY VOLTAGE DETECTOR.
Can not comment on the GFCI
Wire Trackers (harbor freight sells one) may assist you in tracing the problem down.
One thought.. Some electrical inspectors need to be charged with stupidity.
It may be that the seller was told he needed to install GFCI's (you usually do not on older houses, Grandfather clauses usually apply)
So to make the inspector happy he put in a GFCI, in the proper place, never bothering to hook it up, See there is is. Inspector checks off the box (Without ever testing it) and moves on.
(When I look at what the inspector passed in the house I used to own.. I can believe that story.. He scared me,, It is not good when I know more than a so-called professional inspector).
