Posted by Jose bagge on April 28, 2013 at 13:51:30 from (75.105.0.38):
So, I started yanking out ceiling panels to follow the wire; while the guy that built the place may not have wired it logically, he hung the celing tiles high and tight and piled in the insulation batting. When I checked the commons at the panel, three were tied down by the same screw- the offender and two others. When I tugged, the ones above it got sparky so i tightened everything. The offending common, at the panel when pulled off the crew, read 120. I tracked the wire up the drywall and up parallel to a for joint and under ducting-- I could infer that it was heading towards an outlet on the other wall ( which wasn't working.) while I was in the ceiling I fould a random gfi box nailed to a loose 4" piece of 2x4 - when I pushed that button it solved a different problem I'd been having upstairs. I opened up the box and there wer three pieces of Romex wire nutter together an to the outlet, pulling them apart everything tested 0 but one black (120 to ground) and one white (120 to ground) I assumed this was power in . Assuming an open common between the outlet and panel, I pulled a piece of well wire from the common on the panel to the outlet, and got 120 between the black and the well wire. Thinking I now know the problem, I hooked the other two circuits to the well wire and black, flipped the breaker, and... Nothing. I un- nutted everything, and read zero between black/ well wire and zero from both to ground. So- I pulled a piece of Romex from the panel breaker and common and hooked it to the two circuits that didn't seem to be the feed- worked great, but I still had one outlet and two lights not working when I also hooked what I thought was the feed wires up, it power up everything. So - I'm assuming I have a bad piece of Romex between the panel and the outlet that's burnt through both the white and the black. I'm also assuming there's another junction between the outlet I,m working with and the panel, I just need to find it in the ceiling. I figure ill be pulling some wire though the walls tomorrow, for now I'm gonna put the mental gymnastics behind me and mindlessly cut some grass - freezer and poop pump powered up by extension cords. Am I on the right track?
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