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Residential Electrical including Appliances and HVAC with 28 years experience.
Started training as an electrician in 1979, worked for major companies and the government.
Graduated from Electrician's School, Carrier Training, and various specialty schools.
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
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.
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
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
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
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