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+2 on the computer power supply thing. On a standard ATX supply you ground (black) the green wire then everything else works. Nice thing is they're a regulated 12 volts instead of 13.8 so your bulbs will last longer. You can also use a "dumb" car battery charger.

Careful with that volt/ ohm meter; you could have a burnt wire that still passes a little and with the very high impedance of the meter get false good readings. I agree that a back stabbed outlet overheated. Probably you made a "T" somewhere using both side screws and the back stabs too. So...

Is that lift really going to live there? Just seems like lots of cultch in the background. I like the lights on wall idea... if you are working in the daytime you want to match the light coming in those adjacent windows. Put them on multiple switches so you can adjust light as needed.

What about your 110 outlet, trace the wires. If it can do 220 the 110s hots should be isolated. If it's been rewired for "super 110" there should be something in common. Though they probably did "the mod" between the fuse/breakers and the gen head. edit, what wizard said.

Say you have a 3300 watt generator. This would be good for 220 V at 15 amps or 110 V at 30 amps. But with what is effectively a pair of 15 amp windings. Now you have one monster "thing" that needs 25 amps at 110. It only uses half the windings and pops breakers. But, if you re-wire the...

It sounds like at some point someone needed a "large" eg 30 amp 120V feed for "something" and rewired inside the generator head or on its way to the twist-lock. IOW just taking "half" of the available 240, all one leg, was popping breakers or making the generator unbalanced.

How far is the garage from the house and what's the land like in between? If it's 15 feet and sandy shovelling a new trench might not be so bad. Your average "2 hp" air compressor will run fine on 120V/ 15 amps for a few minutes even with a few lights on, though if you were painting a car or...

+1 on the grommet, I use these things on romex:

I have one from 2011 that still eats batteries when powered off. Good news is #76 batteries are $4/1 at dolla tree.

I blew out an Irwin first time using/ abusing it. Have some HF bits that are about 4 years old, hanging tough. The smile factor is high no matter which one I use, so I might get more.

This and grandfathering usually is only for single family dwellings. (As well, sometimes, as DIY wiring.) Once you either rent out apartments, invite the public in (like a church), or do commercial stuff you may have to meet current codes and upgrade to future ones as well. Here, one can DIY...

Check out your neighbors and how they get cable, see if there's a standard convention in your park. Power wires are 99% always on top, below them come phone and cable.

Are these going to be on all four corners? That's going to guzzle wire any way you look at it. I'd do a GFCI outlet at the beginning then junction boxes inside with couple-foot-long pigtails running to non-GFI weather resistant outside outlets. Then if they make you mad you can make the first...

Having five boxes means "four more than usual" so you're luckily ahead of the game there. If you rig the flourescent that's blocked by the door just right, it can shine down through the door's windows, if equipped. I like to back a car into the garage and work on it in the doorway, with sun...

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but deeps for me seem to apply more shear force to the bolt heads and have a greater chance of breaking something (rusty.) Although I'd like to line stuff up better so I can get "straight on" you know that isn't always an option.

One bonus to this (if it's legal to begin with) is the OP won't have to buy a bunch of blank breaker filler doohickeys to cover the newly empty spot in his box if he goes to a single breaker.

A lot depends on how your state/ PUC subsidizes CFLs. Seems the bigger bulbs get less subsidy. There's a WM here that sells 13 watt (60 equiv, 880 lumens?) for FOUR CENTS a bulb. That would require a bunch of sockets, and the inefficiencies of dozens of ballasts would hinder operation...

Re: Sold our House Sold - Everything's Headed to Storage - Tips? Can always get an old school bus that someone started converting to RV. You want someone else doing the labor of ripping the seats out and painting the darn thing.

If you have metal boxes and conduit you might be grounded and not even know it! Simply installing a grounded outlet would ground it through its mounting screws, though code might require you run a pigtail wire too. Similarly a GFCI might actually ground itself. I'd see how the electrician...

Pull the permits and get going. It's easier to ask forgiviness than permission. If your building starts off as an eyesore after a year or two it'll blend into the landscape and people will forget about it. The shrubberies you landscape with will grow into a nice established look if you get...