shawelectric
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.I thought you would be interested in what i have stumbled into.
I work in the Savannah GA area , Ive to work on several homes with BX cable with cloth wiring.The insulation fails ,shorts out,burns into.I have replaced bad sections with romex and explained how important it is to rewire home.
I have one customer who was getting shocked in the shower , found shorted section oF BX and replaced with romex.Another customer had a circuit that was tripping 5 minutes after turning on breaker, so turn on breaker and here something humming in the attic ,I thought it was a fan motor .I look in the attic for this "bad motor" and see a few "orange lights " thru out the attic. Closer look I realized that those were not lights but glowing BX cable..cable was not bonded and of course it had no EGC.
I found and repaired the fault ,bounded all the exposed BX I could to the EGC on the new feeds ( the panel had been upgraded and bonded ,replaced first 10' of circiuts)
I was thinking of replacing all the breakers with arcfault breakers and if any trip ,then rewire that circuit ...instead of rewiring whole house.
What do you think?
I work in the Savannah GA area , Ive to work on several homes with BX cable with cloth wiring.The insulation fails ,shorts out,burns into.I have replaced bad sections with romex and explained how important it is to rewire home.
I have one customer who was getting shocked in the shower , found shorted section oF BX and replaced with romex.Another customer had a circuit that was tripping 5 minutes after turning on breaker, so turn on breaker and here something humming in the attic ,I thought it was a fan motor .I look in the attic for this "bad motor" and see a few "orange lights " thru out the attic. Closer look I realized that those were not lights but glowing BX cable..cable was not bonded and of course it had no EGC.
I found and repaired the fault ,bounded all the exposed BX I could to the EGC on the new feeds ( the panel had been upgraded and bonded ,replaced first 10' of circiuts)
I was thinking of replacing all the breakers with arcfault breakers and if any trip ,then rewire that circuit ...instead of rewiring whole house.
What do you think?