I'm telling you if I had not seen it myself, I almost left a service call thinking that my customer had schizophrenia by the manner she described it and I gave it a preliminary look but need to go back and want suggestions.
Ceiling Fan 1 & Light 1
Switched it on and off 3 times, no juice. The 4th time, it works fine. I changed the switch, its not the switch at all, still happens.
I turn it on and off a few more times and a light in the adjacent room quickly flickers. I thought they may be connected on the same switch and the bulb may be broken but it has it's own independent switch and it's not a 3 way either. I pulled all the wires out the boxes, No observable shorts unless their in the attic space.
L-G - 120V
L-N - 120V
N-G - 0V
Nothing appears to be passing through my ground.
Light 2
While speaking with her in the kitchen. All of a sudden, I here a "clunk" like the dishwasher was going into another cycle but everything was off. The kitchen light, not all of them, just one, dimmed really low then went back to normal. Why only this light? The kitchen was just redone so there may be an issue in the attic.
Light 3 Living Room
Same thing as the ceiling fan. Turn it off and on nothing. Leave it for a minute and it randomly turns on and randomly turns off.
Buzzing Noise
Customer complains over and over of a buzzing noise in the attic. I checked several times and heard nothing. Then when I was leaving by the door I hear a strange humming noise but almost impossible to identify where its coming from. She tells me she cut the wire to the doorbell and they plastered over it. I checked the line, its dead. It sounds like a washing machine running in the distance but it was off.
At first, I thought the lady was crazy. I really did, but I see the issues now myself. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? The issue seems to be across the house globally for the last year after she had her kitchen redone. What would cause such a systemic issue throughout the home?
Ceiling Fan 1 & Light 1
Switched it on and off 3 times, no juice. The 4th time, it works fine. I changed the switch, its not the switch at all, still happens.
I turn it on and off a few more times and a light in the adjacent room quickly flickers. I thought they may be connected on the same switch and the bulb may be broken but it has it's own independent switch and it's not a 3 way either. I pulled all the wires out the boxes, No observable shorts unless their in the attic space.
L-G - 120V
L-N - 120V
N-G - 0V
Nothing appears to be passing through my ground.
Light 2
While speaking with her in the kitchen. All of a sudden, I here a "clunk" like the dishwasher was going into another cycle but everything was off. The kitchen light, not all of them, just one, dimmed really low then went back to normal. Why only this light? The kitchen was just redone so there may be an issue in the attic.
Light 3 Living Room
Same thing as the ceiling fan. Turn it off and on nothing. Leave it for a minute and it randomly turns on and randomly turns off.
Buzzing Noise
Customer complains over and over of a buzzing noise in the attic. I checked several times and heard nothing. Then when I was leaving by the door I hear a strange humming noise but almost impossible to identify where its coming from. She tells me she cut the wire to the doorbell and they plastered over it. I checked the line, its dead. It sounds like a washing machine running in the distance but it was off.
At first, I thought the lady was crazy. I really did, but I see the issues now myself. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? The issue seems to be across the house globally for the last year after she had her kitchen redone. What would cause such a systemic issue throughout the home?
