Froneck
Titanium
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2010
- Location
- McClure, PA 17059
My Daughter purchased a home, she don't live there but daughter does while attending college with 3 other room mates. Week ago all was working! One day they returned home but ceiling lights would not work and one outlet on the 3rd floor. Was old knob and tube, knobs with some unused wire still attached. Didn't see any tubes. House must have been rewired and 2 conductor cloth cover romex wire used, wires are plastic covered not rubber and in very good condition. House must have been rewired again newer breaker panel installed and newer plastic covered romex used. Only one of the 11 breakers has cloth covered romex. Quite a few junction boxes with 1 feed and 3 pairs being fed. Wire nuts are new with metal coils in the plastic housing but wires were not twisted. I removed the wire nuts twisted the wires then replaced the wire nuts however it didn't help. On the first floor there is a switch for the lights, I removed the cover both sides of the switch have no power. Next room switch also included in a new 4" box a duplex outlet that worked. Now have a Neutral and power I could test the switched wires. Neutral to either side of the switch 120VAS Hot side of the outlet to both sides of the switch 240VAC. Flipping the switch does not change anything, both sides are Hot! I determined one breaker may have been the problem, someone connected neutral to the hot side, removed the wire and connected it to neutral. Tested the switch again, neutral to switch O VAC Hot side of the outlet to switch now 120VAc. Other phase is no longer present. However no other breakers would supply power to the switch! Returning the removed wire to power returned the condition, seems the one breaker is connected to both sides of the light line. By using and extension cord the same condition is also on the first switch tested. With power off I checked continuity across the switch terminals, ON I get 0 ohms off I'm getting 10 ohms, I sure that is the light!
As I mentioned the system was working, no one touched the wiring! Any ideas on what might be the cause???
As I mentioned the system was working, no one touched the wiring! Any ideas on what might be the cause???