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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 31090" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Re: Electrical Riddle</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Sorry for the late response guys. Andrew pretty much got it. The problem was that one of the hot legs had been pulled out of the lug in the meter socket (the feeder was run underground with no slack, and when the ground moved, it pulled it right out). This caused half the panel to lose power, but the water heater was feeding back to the other bus through the element. Once the water heater breaker was turned off, the panel metered correctly (although still minus one bus).</p><p></p><p>When metered with the house lights off, the buses were both at about 120V, but when lights were turned on, because of the heating element resistance, they were quite dim.</p><p></p><p>To fix the problem, my dad extended the feeder and reconnected it.</p><p></p><p>8)~<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />~<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p>And to add- this was a service that had been around a LONG time; it was nothing recently installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 31090, member: 34"] Re: Electrical Riddle Sorry for the late response guys. Andrew pretty much got it. The problem was that one of the hot legs had been pulled out of the lug in the meter socket (the feeder was run underground with no slack, and when the ground moved, it pulled it right out). This caused half the panel to lose power, but the water heater was feeding back to the other bus through the element. Once the water heater breaker was turned off, the panel metered correctly (although still minus one bus). When metered with the house lights off, the buses were both at about 120V, but when lights were turned on, because of the heating element resistance, they were quite dim. To fix the problem, my dad extended the feeder and reconnected it. 8)~8-)~:cool: And to add- this was a service that had been around a LONG time; it was nothing recently installed. [/QUOTE]
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