Travisb6989
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- Location
- FL
- Occupation
- Electrician
I’m sure this has happened to several of us or our guys, go trim out a house and start hot checking. Find out a 3rd of the house isn’t getting power on a lighting circuit. Look back at on photos and trace back the hot legs of the circuit, and figure out you missed a jump and everything down line is dead.
Just happened to us on a 2nd floor addition over a garage. Luckily we had photos and were able to resolve the issue within a couple hours and 4 or 5 holes that need patched. Could have been way worse.
All this to say, it got me thinking and curious if anyone does this as a quick check at rough. Wouldn’t be hard to hook up an extension cord to the lighting circuits and quickly walk the house with a contact tester to make sure all the switch boxes that should have a hot leg, have a hot leg….
Just happened to us on a 2nd floor addition over a garage. Luckily we had photos and were able to resolve the issue within a couple hours and 4 or 5 holes that need patched. Could have been way worse.
All this to say, it got me thinking and curious if anyone does this as a quick check at rough. Wouldn’t be hard to hook up an extension cord to the lighting circuits and quickly walk the house with a contact tester to make sure all the switch boxes that should have a hot leg, have a hot leg….
