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Recent Answers from Greg Hughes

2009-11-21 MY lights went out when changing a light bulb.:

It is possible that part of the old bulb is still in the socket and creating a dead short. With the breaker off, take a flashlight and examine each socket real good. If you have a piece of metal touching

2009-11-20 direct wiring a european model waterheater:

You will need a dedicated line from the breaker panel to that outlet under the sink. If your outlet is dedicated, meaning that nothing else is on that circuit you can convert it to a 220 volt line.

2009-11-20 Old Breakers:

HACR breakers react differently than the older standard breakers. Even fuses for HVAC equipment act differently. When your A/C kicks on it pulls a lot of amps momentarily. If it were on a regular older

2009-11-19 Testing low volt transformer:

First you test the high voltage being supplied to the transformer. Since a transformer merely takes the voltage coming in and transforms it there is a need for the supply voltage to be correct. If the

2009-11-18 romex to knob and tube switch leg in wall:

In my experience some of the most dangerous incidents of k and t is in the wall so I hope you are not thinking of keeping that while replacing it in the attic. Usually it is simply dropped straight