FREEBALL
Senior Member
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- york pa usa
I did a job today where I had to make the receptacles hot all the time, the switches were switching half of receptacles originally. I was installing ceiling boxes for lights/fans. Anyway I simply tied the switch legs together at switch however when doing so I checked voltage and found 138v. So now Im thinking there must be a 3 wire feeding the circuit and we lost a neutral, went to panel, and there are no 3 wire circuits, I turned off everything and checked main voltage in it was 262, by the time I turned all on again I rechecked and it was at 241. Anybody see this before the service is fed underground from a padmount poco transformer that feeds 2 other homes. I continued to recheck but voltage stayed the same from there. I told the customer he needs to call poco. Side note I found a single 6/3 seu cable being fed from 2 sp qo20 breakers and asked what this was and the cust. said he thinks the stove. I said really, its electric range. I checked and sure enough it was he stated that they bought 2 stoves in the past years because the breakers kept tripping so Im going back to fix that tomorrow, he said the appliance company installed them. Unreal. I did install an AFCI on the circuit for the lights and the customer was appreciative of this, and after explaining to him what protection this gave him, there was no mention of the price difference between a standard breaker which he got in a previous quote. Anyway just wanted to throw out the incoming voltage issue for ideas
thanx
thanx