r/ElectricalHelp

Should there be green lights illuminated or is this active as is? Thanks!

First time poster and mediocre electrician

Hello all,

I’ve recently bought a new house and am working out some electrical gremlins. Our range randomly stopped working so I started chasing down the problem. Long story short I got the range hood working again but now the new GFCI I installed is not working properly. The hood is piggybacked off this outlet as seen in the wiring pictures and you can see the light from the hood is now on indicating there is power running through the outlet. However if I plug in a toaster or fan or something to the outlet itself it doesn’t work.

I must admit, the wiring is super confusing to me with the three different knob and tubes running into and out of the box and especially with certain ones wound around another.

If someone could explain why two neutrals are wound together and two blacks are wound together that would be great and also explain why the GFCI is not working now. Pressing test and reset do nothing.

Edit: thanks for the help, I’ve got it figured out. Also, picture number two is what I found, not what I did to fix the other issue lol 😂 I probably should’ve clarified that.

Edit: thanks for the help you guys and gals. I got it working. Simply my line and load were crossed. I have one black line wire and two black load wires. Ditto for the neutrals. Receptacle tester is now showing correct wiring.

I have a hardwired some detector in my ceiling that is emitting an extremely loud continuous high-pitched beep.

NONE of the circuit breakers in my electrical panel affect it when I turn them off.

I have removed the unit, disconnected and capped the wires that were connected to it and it is STILL sounding the alarm (photo here). This is not monitored by any alarm company so it can't be cut silenced remotely.

I am an inch away from ripping the damn thing out completely and I do not want to electrocute myself or start a fire.

Can anyone tell me how to stop this insane alarm??

Idk why this is even left open.

I was refurb'ing some old panels for a friend the other day, and came across this strange terminal block inside an ancient BP (yes British Petroleum!) BP250/1 50-watt monocrystalline one, which I think dates back to the 90s, or early 2000s.

It looks a special tool might be required to loosen and replace the wires, which were cut right outside that cable gland, or I'd just leave them. Through those small holes I can see some sort of bus bars or metal rods inside, but trying to push and pull against them with a multimeter probe and other thin implements didn't get me far. I did confirm blue is - and red/orange is +, and that the bypass diodes are still good.

Has anyone seen these types of terminals before? TIA.

Hey 👋 y’all how’s it going!? New to the group (thanks for the add) and also new at home owning. So, earlier today I left for work at roughly 8:55am came back at roughly 11:45am and the fuse for my bathroom and walk-in closet had tripped. No biggy used to happen all the time growing up, go to the panel find the only switch that’s in the middle, force it off then back on, and BAM 💥 you’ve got the power 💪. However, that didn’t work so good this time and I’m wondering if anyone may be able to help me out with advice, who to call, cause all I know to call is the ghost busters and I dunno how’d they do with this, can I replace this myself - without electrifying myself (though I do love me a solid FUNKY CHICKEN) - and basically just what the HELL I’m supposed or at least can do for as wee little cost as possible pretty please and thank you 😊😊

Can anyone please explain to me why I am finding all these cut wires around my house and why someone might do it? I am finding them everywhere and also it seems like I’m finding wires that don’t go anywhere, and suddenly it seems like I have another satellite dish. Unfortunately, I haven’t lived here long and I can’t remember if it wasn’t there, but I’m almost positive it wasn’t before…. Is there any reason why someone might want to do that? Can anyone give me any explanation as to why any of these things are happening? I keep finding damage and cut wires and I don’t really know what to do about it or if I should be worried. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if you need more photos, let me know. I’m just kind of taking pictures because I don’t really know what any of this is. I did my best.

Wiring first panel, I'm going to secure the wires better once I start stripping them.

Advice, feedback, Tips to pass inspection?

Everything in this house is electric, has a few 240v things. Those get the black and red straight to the breaker, what happens with the neutral? That's bonded to the panel too? I saw some stuff where people were scribling sharpie on some neutrals so that's confused me a ton.

What should go where? Put larger breakers towards the bottom? Any feedback or advice is greatly appreciated. It's 200amp service. And home line panel if that helps.

Thanks,

Ryan

My fans started to make this irritating noise only at certain angles (like the angle i need it -_-) but also stops then i touch it slightly?

What could be causing it and how do i fix this? can i fix it?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place on reddit, i just genuinely dont know where to ask.

I've checked the breaker/fuse just abt everything it zapped me pretty good the other day so tonight I decided too go back for round 2 and now there's no electricity going thru it

My ex-wife is currently running her garage fridge on an extension cord (yes I know, I know, at least it’s heavy gauge lol), I would like to find a 3 gang extension box to bring the box out to “surface mount” with conduit knock-outs so I can run conduit up the wall to the ceiling and over to the fridge for a remote outlet. I have not been able to find anything. Can anyone recommend the right extension to me? I would very much prefer to not cut the drywall and replace the whole wall box, but in a worst case scenario I am willing to do so (I know how to do it, just don’t like to lol). There are studs in the way of the path I need to take so I’d like to avoid that. It’s a rental so I’d rather not get too deep into it if I can avoid it. Not worried about the wiring, I do plenty of that at work, I’ll be replacing the existing switches and outlet with new stuff while I’m at it. The main goal is just to get rid of the extension cord lol.

I do have the option of running the outlet over from the door opener outlet in the ceiling, but it’s much further away, and there’s also studs in my way from that direction, so either way surface mounting conduit is going to be my best option without getting too deep into things.

Any help/advice is much appreciated!

Just opened up my electrical panel and I was wondering where these wires go I do not have anything that is 240 V but I’ve only lived here for about 30 years.
Is there anyway I could trace these if I hook up a tester of some sort and walk around with a receiver to try to locate them?

House is about 70 years old with two major renovations done since.
TIA