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hi, i have three hitachi litium ion 18 volt cordless tools; drill, impact and jigsaw. they work well but the charger is acting weird. it is UC18YKSL and it appears to randomly stop charging, i.e. the led goes off and stays off. these tools arent very old, maybe 3 months. battery seems to always...

i'm having an issue here with an irrigation system fed by a river pump. river pump is some 300-400' from residence and is fed by what apears to be 2 gauge or bigger THWN or similar in conduit (220V, and either no ground or no neutral, not sure yet). unknown if conduit is actually home run to the...

this is interesting: i have recently installed a subpanel in my detached garage. i ran #4 wire from the main panel in the house to the garage. i installed 6 20A circuits on four walls and ran 2 lighting circuits, 1 50A 220V circuit, a garage door circuit, furnace/outdoor lighting circuit. so...

i'm confused. one wall of my garage has an MWBC with a GFCI on each leg. thats it for that circuit pair (two pole tied breaker) ceiling lites occasionally trip either GFCI. if i stand there and flip the switch repeatedly one or the other GFCI will trip in a few seconds. ceiling lites are on...

as i was working on my shop today (still insulating walls) i got to wondering how much propane i am using, and i have no idea. i think i may be burning 10 gallons a week but i am not sure. shop is 24x30x9. R19 ceilings, R13 walls. insulated doors. furnace is 45k btu modine, i keep it at 38F at...

i installed a 45k btu modine hot dawg on my ceiling. i used a duravent b vent kit to run the exhaust out the rear wall; it slopes down at 1/4" per foot. the propane installer used soft copper line from the 150 gallon tank to the furnace with no drip leg - when i asked him about this he said a...

i pulled apart a switch loop (not my work) today only to find that they had looped the neutral to the switch and wire nutted all the hots. i'm no expert but this doesnt seem right....but its been this way for ten years. i thought you were supposed to nut all the neutrals and loop the hot(?)...

i have decided to redo my lighting circuits. i have redone every electrical run and box in the garage except for the lighting, and i am not happy with the lighting. originally i had just changed boxes and lefty the original layout but i think i have a couple issues with the existing setup. 1. i...

can i use my P touch to label my service panel? the existing 10 year old pencil marks are unreadable due to fading and i have redone the entire electrical layout so nothing matches the labeling anyway. i have been keeping a sheet next to the panel that is accurate. just looking ahead to the...

ran into quite the issue today, i'm planning on hooking up four of the five thermostat connections (i'm not using Y). my thermostat needs the C to run it and i might as well hook up the G while i am at it as the thermostat has that feature. inside the hot dawg i cannot turn R and W. i can turn...

have a detached garage, approx 700' square and 70' from main house. original sub panel in garage is decent (100A main lug, lots of room for breakers maybe 24?) but the feed from main panel to sub panel was horribly wrong (10/3 UF buried 12" under grass). voltage swing leg to leg was 85V/150V...

hi, this is my first post here. i have read many posts on heating garage/shops here and still have a few questions. i am in the process of installing a hot dawg HD45 propane furnace. i mounted it on the ceiling, ran power from the subpanel to a j box near the ceiling (not hooked up from j box...