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• Posted in thread: Dual 20 Breaker Short on 12-18-2011 at 10:34 AM
  I believe it is the cable. Right now the ground freeze is melting and saturated wet: I can't
  keep the breaker on, but it stayed on last night for a few hours with the ground frozen. The
  new breaker sh...

• Posted in thread: Dual 20 Breaker Short on 12-17-2011 at 08:51 AM
  I had an electrician out yesterday to review everything and he found no short in the
  underground line. After reconnecting the water pump pressure switch, the water came back. He
  suggested to replace t...

• Posted in thread: Dual 20 Breaker Short on 12-15-2011 at 03:49 PM
  The submersible cable runs under the ground 3 inches! Travels under the trailer and must splice
  into the new yellow submersible at some point between the pole and the well house. I am
  suspecting this ...

• Posted in thread: Dual 20 Breaker Short on 12-15-2011 at 01:49 AM
  Attached is a picture from when I rewired the box: the 20 amp two pole is marked Well. Sorry
  for calling dual twenty! We have no water and having someone come out to megger the underground
  line is a g...

• Posted in thread: Dual 20 Breaker Short on 12-13-2011 at 11:07 PM
  A dual twenty breaker was off this morning which shut the well down. I replaced the breaker and
  instead of shutting off slow, the new breaker shut off fast. From the breaker, the heavy 600 V
  submersib...

• Posted in thread: Breaker Box Ground Wire on 09-27-2011 at 12:18 PM
  This is probably a 100 amp main as it is two ganged 50 amps, if that is how this translates.
  This panel supplies a single wide and the sub-panel is new and well wired. I do need an upgrade
  on the main...

• Posted in thread: Breaker Box Ground Wire on 09-27-2011 at 11:03 AM
  The green taped wire is the ground going to the house subpanel. This box serves as the main
  breaker box. Inside the main are the main dual 50 amp breaker, a dual 20 amp breaker for a
  well, and a break...

• Posted in thread: Partial Power Outage on 09-26-2011 at 09:41 PM
  I had lost power to half our electrical and no breakers tripped. The problem was a bad main 50
  amp dual breaker which would flicker electricity on two house circuit paths (kitchen and
  bathroom) until ...

• Posted in thread: Breaker Box Ground Wire on 09-26-2011 at 09:31 PM
  We recently lost power to one leg of our electrical which was caused by dual 50 amp breaker
  which had gone bad. On repairing the box, I noticed there was no ground wire to the
  neutral/ground bar. The ...