About PASCACK VALLEY ELECTRIC Bob Mossman Expertise Licensed Master Electrician (29 years) 6165B Contractor in Closter New Jersey with 38 years total experience in Residential - Commercial - Industrial work. Emergency Service - General trouble shooting and repair work - Paddle fans - Kitchen & Bath exhaust fans - AC lines - Smoke detectors - Telephone lines - Cable TV lines - Computer network cabling - Exterior lighting - Recessed lighting - Security lighting - (200 - 150 - 100 amp service up grades) - Electric Heat - New circuits - New appliance hook ups - Back up generators - and more ! FREE ESTIMATES 201-358-1552 www.pascackvalleyelectric.com
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Education/Credentials "The Frank Williams School of Electrical Construction". My dear old boss is 96 and still going God Bless him. I started working for "Tenafly Electric" right out of high school at 19. He was tough but I learned more working for him in 8 and half years than most guys. We did mostly industrial work while doing some commercial and residential so I was fortunate to be exposed to all 3 areas of electrical construction. The guys I worked with were all good guys and I stay in touch with some of them still. Most of us went into our own buisness's which says something about the caliber of the guys I worked with. We had some interesting clients : Wella Corp. of shampoo fame, Farah Fawcett etc, I didn't buy shampoo for 10 years, it was a great place to work. Pan Am the X airline just before they went under, another great place to work, nice clean environment. C&C Metals, the largest button manufacturer in the US, a not so clean environment but a very interesting place to work, lots of machine's cranking out buttons of all kinds but you had to be on your toes, it was a potentially dangerous place to be . All kinds of action going on around you.
Question I have a major dilemma with the wiring throughout the house. Many switches and outlets are somehow controlled by two different circuit breakers. The third on the left side of the panel, and the fifth on the right side. Closing one does not stop the current. They must both be off. I have diagrammed the house, both inside and out, and there are many rooms involved. My question? How do I rectify this problem? Thanks for any help.
Answer Jim,
Let me get this straight. All the SAME switches and receptacles go on and off with these two breakers ? In other words it doesn't matter which breaker is on at the time but the same switches and receptacles are going on and off ?.....if this IS in fact whats going on then some body has unwittingly tied these 2 circuits together at some point in the circuit which could be ANYWHERE. I don;t know if this is a new problem or an old one but if its new then you want to take a close look at any work that you or any one else did recently. If its an old problem that you just discovered then I'm afraid you don't have that much to go on. So at this point I would recomend you get a pro to find this problem and save yourself a lot of heart ache tearing everything apart and possibley causing more problems and confusion.
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