brantmacga
Señor Member
- Location
- Georgia
- Occupation
- Former Child
Had a service call on a mobile home today. Had some lights and receps not working.
I was able to repair everything, but one of my repairs left me unsatisfied.
Breakfast nook receps not working. Neutral & ground ring out, so I know it’s connected somewhere. It was 12/2NM. I opened all the 20A circuit boxes and could not find anything disconnected on the ungrounded conductor. I’ve worked on a few of these, and the crossovers have always been at the very end of the structure.
I crawled under every inch of this house and couldn’t find them. I’m pretty sure they must be at the end where the hvac ducts are, and I think they’re covered up by the two 24” ducts and inaccessible.
I ended up connecting them to the bedroom circuit in the wall behind the nook; I disconnected what I know to be the incoming feed for that circuit after ringing everything out. There was a bedroom recep in an adjacent stud cavity, so I was able to drill between them and run a new wire to feed the nook receps.
The question is, for anyone familiar with mobile homes, where are these circuits normally ran from? I can tell you 100% it is not the kitchen counter outlets. It doesn’t help that all the 15A & 20A receps are labeled as “crossovers”. I think the brand of house was Fleetwood.
Edit to add.... the incoming power looks to be coming from overhead, so I’m not 100% sure it’s coming from a crossover.
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I was able to repair everything, but one of my repairs left me unsatisfied.
Breakfast nook receps not working. Neutral & ground ring out, so I know it’s connected somewhere. It was 12/2NM. I opened all the 20A circuit boxes and could not find anything disconnected on the ungrounded conductor. I’ve worked on a few of these, and the crossovers have always been at the very end of the structure.
I crawled under every inch of this house and couldn’t find them. I’m pretty sure they must be at the end where the hvac ducts are, and I think they’re covered up by the two 24” ducts and inaccessible.
I ended up connecting them to the bedroom circuit in the wall behind the nook; I disconnected what I know to be the incoming feed for that circuit after ringing everything out. There was a bedroom recep in an adjacent stud cavity, so I was able to drill between them and run a new wire to feed the nook receps.
The question is, for anyone familiar with mobile homes, where are these circuits normally ran from? I can tell you 100% it is not the kitchen counter outlets. It doesn’t help that all the 15A & 20A receps are labeled as “crossovers”. I think the brand of house was Fleetwood.
Edit to add.... the incoming power looks to be coming from overhead, so I’m not 100% sure it’s coming from a crossover.
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