Recent content by Brandon_Hanley

i didnt use it when i first added the ground just turned the amp on and listened. later after trying to play though the amp and getting the noise i used the tester and it still said open ground

well i thought it was fixed but after spending more time with it i realize its not. i hooked the ground up right in the outlet so im guessing the problem is somwhere between the back of the outlet box and panel box.

heating bill was insane, so we put in a wood burner last spring for this winter. while putting the wood burner it we confirmed that the walls arent insulated, just some sort of plaster crap with wooden slats coverng the studs then brick. some of the knob and tube is definatly still...

im still going to post pictures and stil going to have a pro come and finish converting everything to more modern wiring and make sure my family isnt going to burn to death stranger? nah lol not as long as this place is half as helpfull with the rest of the home repair catagories...

thanks for all the help folks. i shut the power off and hooked the ground to the outlet and it seems to have done the trick. now im wondering how many other outlets are like this. the whole house rewire we were planning may not be half as bad as we expected, if the rest of the 3 prong...

i wish it was that easy lol would have to be one hell of a loud stereo. i cant even hear my GF yelling for me when she's upstairs and im in the basement. need a middle man to relay the message. or i could just crank the amp gain and volume up and lay the guitar across the top of it...

found a section of the same type of bare copper used for the grounds behind the outlet while waiting for a reply, now i just need to find some monster sized wire nuts and try to figure out how to shut the power off only to that room, so i dont have the woman and kids bugging me asking when...

is the forum unavailable for anyone else? i kept getting error messages for the past few minutes

ok i went for another look and yes i have 2 seperate sets of wires. not sure what it would be feeding, this is the only outlet in the room. the grounds are not touching each other, one is connected to the clamp at the top and one to the clamp at the bottom of the metal box...

also what is the trick to getting the outlet out to work on it? either the wire is too short or it wont pull through the back of the box. while trying to get it out far enough to show the wires behind it i've tried everything short of putting both feet on the wall and pulling on the...

quoted from HERE my ground is only hooked to the metal box behind this outlet, could my problem be as simple as unhooking it from the metal outlet box and attatching it to a green screw on the outlet or am i missing something

i've thought of getting something like that but the humx and other similar devices only get rid of the hum but still risk shock and the gfci outlets only fix the risk of shock. i'd like to get rid of both.

would a multi meter or test light work for this or does it have to be the bulb/pigtail?

on another note i just tried to pull the outlet in question for photos and i couldnt get it out far enough to get a good photo but it doesnt look like the knob and tube that goes through alot of the house. it looks like its got the plastic coating on, 2 black connected to one side of the...

there is already an exterior ground rod connected to one of the panels. problem is i have 2 pannels, one newer looking panel with lots of flip switch breakers that are poorly labled in the basement, and one old panel with 4-5 fuse sort of things that screw in and are shaped like corks...