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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 1272566" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>The back story is that the original house burned so they used the orginal lead ins from the pole to supply the new one. They brought it in and spliced it with big split bolts and warpped it with electrician tape and ran it hrough juntion box just laying on the ground in the crawl space. </p><p>We had always had strange electrical things, dimming lights breakers tripping, etc. The first thing we found was the ground in all of the outlets and switches instead of being connected by the crew they were just slipped into the prong deal. A couple of them had arced enough through the years that the wire was burned through. I needed another 30 amp outlet on the back porch/sunroom. While the elctrician was crawling around he bumped the junction box and heard a snap. Pulled the cover off and both hots had burned through the tape and burned holes in the junction box, one hot was welded to it. The replaced that mess with new wire, connectors and a lot more tape. Haven;t had any issues with the elctricity since. Butu you have to remember that the original wiring was done by the same putz that used doubled up 14 ga with a bare ground (doubled) to run the 220 in the milk parlor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 1272566, member: 34"] The back story is that the original house burned so they used the orginal lead ins from the pole to supply the new one. They brought it in and spliced it with big split bolts and warpped it with electrician tape and ran it hrough juntion box just laying on the ground in the crawl space. We had always had strange electrical things, dimming lights breakers tripping, etc. The first thing we found was the ground in all of the outlets and switches instead of being connected by the crew they were just slipped into the prong deal. A couple of them had arced enough through the years that the wire was burned through. I needed another 30 amp outlet on the back porch/sunroom. While the elctrician was crawling around he bumped the junction box and heard a snap. Pulled the cover off and both hots had burned through the tape and burned holes in the junction box, one hot was welded to it. The replaced that mess with new wire, connectors and a lot more tape. Haven;t had any issues with the elctricity since. Butu you have to remember that the original wiring was done by the same putz that used doubled up 14 ga with a bare ground (doubled) to run the 220 in the milk parlor. [/QUOTE]
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