calisparky6
Member
OK. apprentice question here. helping out one of my best friends with what i thought was a simple problem.
the problem: a guest house in the back portion of his house has an overhead service drop to the SUB PANEL at the cottage. the 60amp sub is fed from the main panel. eventually we are going to trench and put the cottage on its own meter... NO POWER AT COTTAGE!!! i checked all connections to the sub panel. I get 120v at each leg and 240v between them. Everything used to work in the cottage and one minute nothing.
Possible lost neutral? The main panel is new. New breakers all around. New romex at cottage. The only suspect could be the aluminum overhead service wire acting as neutral.
Tomorrow I'm going to splice in a heavy duty extension cord and see if it eliminates the problem. this should be an easy fix but its gotten frustrating!!
ideas?
the problem: a guest house in the back portion of his house has an overhead service drop to the SUB PANEL at the cottage. the 60amp sub is fed from the main panel. eventually we are going to trench and put the cottage on its own meter... NO POWER AT COTTAGE!!! i checked all connections to the sub panel. I get 120v at each leg and 240v between them. Everything used to work in the cottage and one minute nothing.
Possible lost neutral? The main panel is new. New breakers all around. New romex at cottage. The only suspect could be the aluminum overhead service wire acting as neutral.
Tomorrow I'm going to splice in a heavy duty extension cord and see if it eliminates the problem. this should be an easy fix but its gotten frustrating!!
ideas?