I want to thank everyone by ?trying to understand my un-native English. It is difficult for an old Parakeet learn to sing. When I was send to a physical for my US naturalization, the doctor asked if there was TB in my country (I thought, why this doctor is asking me if there is TV in my country, maybe she wants to do some exports as this doctor was from Asia) and when I answer yes, there is TV in my country, then she asked me if I have TV, I said, of course I have TV!. I was referring to television and she was referring to tuberculosis, so, my naturalization process was delayed as I had to go to another medical facility for extra testing. I still laughing.
I regretted walking away from this job as I am still curios about this situation, but been a grumpy old Parakeet I will never find it out and the satisfaction of fixing it. When I opened several receptacles and I disconnected the black & red wires on some of the receptacles (see photo), I read, not with the grounded (neutral) as it was open somewhere but between the box and both ungrounded (black & red) each one read 120 V but testing between the two legs, black & red didn?t read 240 V, so I assume that both, black & red were connected on the same phase, BUT, then why other receptacles on the same line were reading 240V between the black & red and 2 receptacles were working perfectly? Also, the tenant told me that a bulb in a floor lamp connected to a receptacle (the one directly above the new electric baseboard heater) got brighter and burned the bulb (indication of variable voltage), she replaced the bulb and it didn?t happen again (?) Seeing the panel: the gray breaker at #8 (counting by spaces from top) is new as the old one melted and the trainee replaced with this one (notice it is a multiwire) and the #s 11 and 12 (counting by spaces from top) are on multiwire as well, but it doesn?t make any difference if you flipped it on or off, so I know this breaker is shut off in the close position. BTW, I reattached the wires as they were because I didn?t want to lose track of the trainee job and I wanted to work with him to facilitate the job and help him; my thought was to replace this Zinsco panel, as the trainee saw buss damaged when he replaced the breaker, do a load calculation as there were new electric heaters and the main breaker in the electrical room is 70 amps, open all outlets, trace and rewire trainee work, etc., but hard head goes in my way. Without looking, can you guess what was happening there? Did I was wrong in wanting to fix the problem in this way?
I thank mwm1752 for his sample report, as I am going to use it for future reporting.
I regretted walking away from this job as I am still curios about this situation, but been a grumpy old Parakeet I will never find it out and the satisfaction of fixing it. When I opened several receptacles and I disconnected the black & red wires on some of the receptacles (see photo), I read, not with the grounded (neutral) as it was open somewhere but between the box and both ungrounded (black & red) each one read 120 V but testing between the two legs, black & red didn?t read 240 V, so I assume that both, black & red were connected on the same phase, BUT, then why other receptacles on the same line were reading 240V between the black & red and 2 receptacles were working perfectly? Also, the tenant told me that a bulb in a floor lamp connected to a receptacle (the one directly above the new electric baseboard heater) got brighter and burned the bulb (indication of variable voltage), she replaced the bulb and it didn?t happen again (?) Seeing the panel: the gray breaker at #8 (counting by spaces from top) is new as the old one melted and the trainee replaced with this one (notice it is a multiwire) and the #s 11 and 12 (counting by spaces from top) are on multiwire as well, but it doesn?t make any difference if you flipped it on or off, so I know this breaker is shut off in the close position. BTW, I reattached the wires as they were because I didn?t want to lose track of the trainee job and I wanted to work with him to facilitate the job and help him; my thought was to replace this Zinsco panel, as the trainee saw buss damaged when he replaced the breaker, do a load calculation as there were new electric heaters and the main breaker in the electrical room is 70 amps, open all outlets, trace and rewire trainee work, etc., but hard head goes in my way. Without looking, can you guess what was happening there? Did I was wrong in wanting to fix the problem in this way?
I thank mwm1752 for his sample report, as I am going to use it for future reporting.
