Recent content by Chris130

Caseta is an impressively solid & responsive system. Range is better than they advertise too. My detached garage is ~40' from house. I have my main garage lights on a Caseta sw/ out there and it works fine (even in the crazy cold right now up here in MN!). Caseta has both neutral-required...

Also a Leviton fan here. I have some I installed 12 years ago when I moved in and they are still doing great. I like that the green LED is normally illuminated - it's intuitive and helpful to verify with a quick glance that nothing's tripped. Other brands do odd / unintuitive things with...

RAB, hands down. The only thing that drive me crazy is the adjustment dials they have on the sensors... I just max out the photosensitivity and range dials, but that darn one for setting the amount of time the light stays on after motion is a doozy to get dialled in (pun intended). But once...

Even if it does turn out to be UF, it would be equally concerning that a pro outfit would opt to run UF through conduit. If I was OP, I'd try to claw back a refund from the clowns that did this install and either DIY or get a different company to do it right. I wouldn't want these same guys...

True, but zooming out again... Pete and his fellow new-construction-development neighbors are all being plagued with these tripping issues. I think we'd all agree that the breakers involved (ID'd earlier in thread) are widely respected as one of the best. Is it possible that the whole...

I'll say it again... I bet anything that the same electrical sub was involved in all of these house builds and did something shady (intentional or otherwise) that's causing y'all to have these arc faults. The breakers are doing their job - you & your neighbors have to figure out what's...

^^^ This! Edit: assuming the disco switch in inside, not exterior, then) Here's a simpler don't-mess solution to guard the switch - it still enables access to flip the switch... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WTYD/?tag=atomicindus08-20 This is a very common requirement, at least...

I have no idea what an insurance company would actually do, but if they discover a contributing factor to a fire was the owner swapping out to a no-longer-compliant breaker after a compliant inspection was done, then that's gonna make for an uncomfortable conversation... Sure, you can claim...

I just installed one of these to control 2 shoplights (one over each stall in my 2-car detached). Those give plenty of light for basic going/coming to/from the car and quick trips to grab something in the garage. Since the single bulb in my GDO is pretty worthless, this has been a nice win for...

Yep, I was just going to post about that little bar too -- what is going on down there? It's difficult to follow all of the wires connecting to it, but it looks like the white wires are being used as grounds? I'm not sure why any of that is necessary.

I was told that the end-cap on their furnace gas line's sediment trap somehow came off, but I don't know more than that. They finally found that portion of the gas assembly in the rubble, but no end-cap. They had old black-pipe gas lines (same as my house), so maybe it just somehow corroded...

Sure no one would say regular breakers don't prevent some types of fires; AFCI simply adds an additional layer of defense to all of that in the form of arc-fault protection. A nail or staple nicking some romex won't trip a regular breaker, but it'll likely trip an AFCI. Is that gonna burn my...

I hear ya, this kind of stuff can be freakin' maddening to get to the bottom of! But... From the 30,000' view, what really makes more sense here... A.) You and your neighbors have what seems to be the worst possible luck with an ongoing slew of dud breakers (all from a breaker series [CH]...

This! An AF, GF, or combo breaker tripping without obvious explanation rarely means it is bad. There's a slight chance it could be, but the far more likely answer is that it's doing what it's supposed to do -- i.e. wiring issue in house, receptacle, or appliance is causing the AF or GF trip...

Eaton owns the Cutler-Hammer name. In the Eaton lineup, compatible equipment/breakers are labelled "Type CH". CH (both original and Eaton) is a very solid and reliable series - if they're failing, the issue is almost certainly something more ominous than a few coincidental bad breakers.