Low voltage with breaker turned off

[mm08822]

Or filling a shotglass from a firehose.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

I would turn off the whole house's main breaker and check if you still see these voltages at that box.
If you don't, turn on one breaker at a time until you see these voltages again.
Per historical and present-day AC voltage design... current flows or is being pushed by voltage and these electrons want to make a complete circuit or return to the generating station at 60 cycles/second. The current will flow in less resistance lines or things (you, other metal conductors, and earth ground)
You might find another circuit breaker's circuit neutral tied to this existing circuit that shows these low voltages even though its circuit breaker is off.

horrible idea. of course there wont be any voltage when the main is off so what is the point in doing that?

 

[Norcal]

I can't believe nobody has jumped in yet to complain about the Homeline and BR breakers installed in what I believe is a Siemens or ITE panel. (personally, I don't care, I may be guilty of installing a BR breaker or 30 in Siemens panels during the Covid supply chain issues) And that single pole 30? I hope it goes to a camper, I don't know of anything else that's a 30 amp 120 volt in a residential setting.

I have been skipping this thread for while, the panel is a ITE Imperial Corp. panel, made before Gould Inc. took over (1976), it does look like somebody who did not know what they were doing was there, there is a GE that is older then the panel in there too.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

I can't believe nobody has jumped in yet to complain about the Homeline and BR breakers installed in what I believe is a Siemens or ITE panel. (personally, I don't care, I may be guilty of installing a BR breaker or 30 in Siemens panels during the Covid supply chain issues) And that single pole 30? I hope it goes to a camper, I don't know of anything else that's a 30 amp 120 volt in a residential setting.

we were waiting on you to chime in

 

[sparky 1971]

we were waiting on you to chime in

I was actually surprised that it didn't get pointed out. It looks like six hours had gone by between the time the picture was posted and my post about the mismatched breakers. On a normal day in that amount of time there would have been three suggestions for panel replacements, two requests for pictures of the panel label to verify which breakers were wrong, five people would want photos with the cover off, and someone else would want to know the transformer location. A lot of guys really dropped the ball on this one. And then there's me that doesn't care.

 

[mm08822]

It gets old.

We need a sticky with the top 20 replies so we can Rubber stamp the same Ole sh*t.