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If I understand you right, you might not be in as bad a shape as you think. When you say you connected the positive of the LED to the battery circuit, do you mean you connected it to the *positive* lead from the battery? If so, then really 5 and 6 were sitting at the same potential. Not...

GFCIs trip when there is an imbalance between the phases - essentially when whatever goes out on the black wire isn’t perfectly balanced with what’s coming back on the white. I’m suspecting there’s something in the laptop power supply brick that’s chopping the waveform in a way the GFCI doesn’t...

If you absolutely positively don’t want to install a subpanel foe whatever reason, the other way to solve the problem is replace the 50a breaker at the main panel with a 20a, then replace the 14-50 receptacle with the right one for your lathe. You’re then SOL for future EV charging, but you can...

Feeding a higher rated panel from a lower rated breaker is pretty normal, and no problem. Connecting more *load* to that subpanel than what was designed for can be a nuisance, due to trips as you noted, but it’s not a safety hazard. It may technically be a code violation if you’re an...

Hi all, looking forward to good discussions and helping where I can. I’ve got a rented garage space where I work on my cars, mostly BMWs from the 70s - 90s. It’s not much, more of a set of conjoined storage bays, but it has power and I can fit in a lift. Always looking for good ideas and handy...

You can think that, but it doesn’t make it true. The feds have almost zero say over any local utility, certainly over any Public Utility Commission. PUCs are about the closest we have in local control and governance over utilities. They may not be perfect, but they’re pretty darned far from...