r/electrical

Street light crew is where it’s at

I had bought this brand new Singer iron a few years back, and barely used it before my cat decided to snack on it. He has a thing for anything with a rubbery texture - the little fecker even has the audacity to puke it up and act surprised every time.

Anyway, I hung on to it because the thought of throwing it out when it's so nice and shiny made me want to cry.

I need to know if it's even possible to repair something like this. Is it something I have to visit a specialist for, or something I can do myself?

Please give me hope 🙏🏼 I've already resigned myself to a life parenting this smooth-brained feline. Give me something to keep me going.

I may be dumb but is this not defeating the purpose of the breaker? What is the point of this

Had my Ideal 1/2 inch bender for 25 years. Broke last week. Ideal shipped a new one out right away. Free of charge

Thank you

I’m building a deck and had my electric company come out to mark lines in the ground. I got home and all they put was a symbol I can’t make out. No flags our anything. Does this just mean there are no lines in the area of work?

Hey y’all, new homeowner here. When we first moved in we had this light fixture in our basement working; then one day it stopped working. Not 100% sure what happened, but I checked with a voltage tester and it is still receiving power to the wires. So my immediate thought was to swap out the fixture for a new one, thinking something might be wrong with that, but still nothing. Plugging anything into the outlet on the fixture also doesn’t work. When I used the outlet tester I’m getting an open hot reading (no lights turn on). Can anyone help a DIYer out here. Trying not to get an electrician out if I don’t need to. Is there a fix for this that anyone can help walk me through?

I accidentally disconnected the wires from my old doorbell and I’m not quite sure how it goes back together. I’ve tried multiple combinations so far and none produce sound. I’ve also looked at diagrams but still no sound.
This is a 2 doorbell system. From the pictures, I have the right striped wire goes to the rear doorbell. The left striped wire goes to the front doorbell and the wire that is currently connected to the ground register is the same wire that is attached on the left register of the second picture with what I believe is a transformer.

This Hubbell outlet was installed in my garage, but never hooked up to panel. It is 30A, 240 . What would it normally be used for?

I have these kind of light fixtures in my basement kitchen, main hallway and laundry room they don't turn on how much to do you'd figure it cost to hire a electrician to switch* all of them to bulb outlets?

These outlets come off a sub panel on the second floor. All the ones on the main floor show as grounded but all the ones upstairs are showing open ground. What could cause this? Anything I can do to troubleshoot as a home owner?

Attaching pictures of the sub panel main panel. The sub panel comes off the 2 30amp breakers that are switched to off on the main panel.

Opened customers panel today to find this fire waiting to happen. Apparently they have two teslas and needed a second level 2 charger. Hire electricians people! At least if it were to burn you won’t be to blame!

I have this multiple function switch for light dimmer

1. For light dimmer and pushes in and out to turn light on of off
2. Fan switch
3. The 2 remaining are for light switches

All light controlling 3 different light.
The dimmer switch is bad and I’m looking to replace the whole thing box.
What’s are my options please?

Looking for advice for hanging a chandelier from a box that’s indented a bit too small for the main cover to screw on

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