NON GMC - Electrical Question

[RF_Burns]

John,
Open the outlet box and wire a 100K ohm resistor across the hot and neutral connections of the outlet. The resistor will provide a return path for the
leakage current.
--
Bruce Hislop
ON Canada
77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC.
Hubler 1 ton front end
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My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that

 

[thomas phipps]

John, Are you saying that you replaced all the outside outlets with GFI outlets? GFI outlet should be on the end of the string only. I did this once
and it caused crazy electrical operation. Changing back to only one cured the problem.
Tom, MS II
--
1975 GMC Avion
KA4CSG

 

[robert mueller]

Tom,

Please clarify "GFI outlet should be on the end of the string only."

I thought it had to be the first one on the string.

Regards,
Rob M.
The Pedantic Mechanic
USAussie - Downunder
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
USA '77 Kingsley - TZE 267V100808

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John, Are you saying that you replaced all the outside outlets with GFI outlets? GFI outlet should be on the end of the string only.
I did this once
and it caused crazy electrical operation. Changing back to only one cured the problem.
Tom, MS II
--
1975 GMC Avion
KA4CSG

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[stick miller]

> Thanks for the ideas! I'll kill the circuit tomorrow and pull the switch and outlets to check their wiring. The house was built in 1971, and they
> ran 12-2 with ground to ALL of the duplex outlets (83 of them), BUT used ungrounded outlets. That's right - no ground hole, and the bare ground was
> just loose in the boxes.
>
> When we moved in, I replaced all of the outlets with grounded ones, and put in all new switches. But I may have missed the outlets on the front
> porch :blush:
>
> We'll see tomorrow.
>
> Thanks again,
> John

John - you're better off than I am. My house, built in 1910, had no grounded outlets when we moved in. After upgrading the service to 200A, that still
left me with many unusable 2 hole plugs. I've replaced all the 2 holers with 3 holers, but nary a ground in the front part of the house.(Kitchen was
completely rewired while the plaster was down). I guess we've ben lucky with no failures or problems in almost 13 years.

--
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold '84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Am I Blue?"

Americus, GA

 

[adolph santorine]

Stick:

Since I'm famous for "putting the fork in the outlet", I'm going to try to frame this in a way where someone with a differing opinion won't start an all out email "discussion" about the superior way to get it done.

On a previous house (and a couple of decades ago) I did a completely insane amount of work pulling the old knob and tube. My nonagenarian neighbor (who retired from being an electrician about the time I was born) was watching me with a certain amount of glee, and came over, picked up a piece of the 80 year old wiring, pressed his thumbnail into the insulation and announced "see, it's still good".

Talk about taking the wind out of my sails.

I love the opinions of knob and tube from the trade. I still don't and won't buy that it's better than Romex, but I didn't replace all of it in a cottage we are working on recently. One piece of the logic is that it's lasted for a century, and, well, you know.

Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included. Dreadful amounts of assembly required.

Hope this finds you well.

Dolph Santorine
Wheeling, West Virginia

1977 ex-Palm Beach

>> Thanks for the ideas! I'll kill the circuit tomorrow and pull the switch and outlets to check their wiring. The house was built in 1971, and they
>> ran 12-2 with ground to ALL of the duplex outlets (83 of them), BUT used ungrounded outlets. That's right - no ground hole, and the bare ground was
>> just loose in the boxes.
>>
>> When we moved in, I replaced all of the outlets with grounded ones, and put in all new switches. But I may have missed the outlets on the front
>> porch :blush:
>>
>> We'll see tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> John
>
> John - you're better off than I am. My house, built in 1910, had no grounded outlets when we moved in. After upgrading the service to 200A, that still
> left me with many unusable 2 hole plugs. I've replaced all the 2 holers with 3 holers, but nary a ground in the front part of the house.(Kitchen was
> completely rewired while the plaster was down). I guess we've ben lucky with no failures or problems in almost 13 years.
>
> --
> Stick Miller
> '78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
> '76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold '84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Am I Blue?"
>
>
> Americus, GA
>
>
>
>
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[johnny]

Our original Georgia house, built in 1901 and razed fopr the highway several years ago, had tube and post wiring. Which, I was told, was still legal.
But since it was groundless, and I didn't want uit under insulation in the attic, I replaced everything with 12-2/G and 14-2/G in the crawl space and
put the grounds in for the plugholes.

--johnny

--
'76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
"The road goes on forever, and the party never ends" --Robert Earl Keen

 

[RonaldPottol]

I have an illuminated switch, I have to use a cf in it, if I used the LED
night light I wanted, it only dimmed when I switched it off.

On Dec 5, 2016 08:51, "Johnny Bridges via Gmclist"
wrote:

> Our original Georgia house, built in 1901 and razed fopr the highway
> several years ago, had tube and post wiring. Which, I was told, was still
> legal.
> But since it was groundless, and I didn't want uit under insulation in
> the attic, I replaced everything with 12-2/G and 14-2/G in the crawl space
> and
> put the grounds in for the plugholes.
>
> --johnny
>
> --
> '76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and
> add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> "The road goes on forever, and the party never ends" --Robert Earl Keen
>
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