Are the switch, S3, and the recepticle/conductors, in question in the same box?
so where are the outlets and switches?
And there is no hot pair in that box?
And the switch does not energize the light?
The switch works fine. It operates the light.
I am trying to replace the mobile home switch with a normal one. I can do this for outlets, but switches seem to be different. There are 2 brass screws, a ground, and a BLACK. What's the black? Is that where I put both white wires to?
I am in the process of using process of elimination to see which wires go where.
I am trying to replace the mobile home switch with a normal one. I can do this for outlets, but switches seem to be different. There are 2 brass screws, a ground, and a BLACK. What's the black? Is that where I put both white wires to?
I am in the process of using process of elimination to see which wires go where.
How many conductors are in that box, and/or how many Romex?
You need to put a wirenut on the loose black conductor at the top of the breakers.
The breaker #3 is a split breaker and controls 2 separate circuits.
If there is no reading of 120V from each screw, individually, to ground, after you have shut both breakers off and back on, 1/2 of the breaker is bad and should be replaced.
You also have an unused breaker space at the top of the left hand row of breakers, and you should take the 3rd conductor away from the red breaker an install it in its own breaker.
Installing a split, 20A, breaker like #3 will afford you a spare for future use.
2 Romex connected to the switch.
1 to the non-working outlet.
On the split red breaker, the top red switch controls one circuit.
The bottom red switch has two wires coming out of it. One of them controls a circuit. The other seemingly does nothing.
Any way to test if it actually leads anywhere? And same for that loose wire that I put a nut on?
Romex is the cable that contains the conductors.
A black, white and bare copper conductors enclosed in a white or yellow sheath, is a typical 2 and a ground romex.
When you turn that breaker off, do both of them go off, or can you turn them off individually?
It's actually illegal to have 2 circuits connected too 1 breaker and why the advice.
However, in the mean time, and with the breaker off, disconnect one of the conductors and you can find what no longer works.
There are a number of circuit tracers, or you can install a breaker in the spare, connect the conductor and turn the breaker on.
I know that.
There are two sheaths connecting to the switch, and one to the outlet.
I have already tested the individual wires that are connected to the bottom red switch.
The red switches can be turned off individually.
It occurred to me that maybe the non-working outlet is connected to the loose wire in the panel.
What are the colors of the two conductors connected to the recep.
I don't know what "recep" means. I'll assume it means switch. There are two white sheathings. Each sheathing contains a black, white, and copper.
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