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Originally Posted By: jhagarty
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Plugged the Tester in and all three lights lit.

Thinking it was a Bad Tester, I plugged another Tester into the receptacle.

Hmmm...

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Originally Posted By: jpope
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I’ve never seen that. Do you not have a SureTest?

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Originally Posted By: hgordon
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Hmmm…I have but it blew my SureTest Up.

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Originally Posted By: jpope
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I lost a SureTest when one of these was wired for 240v. Maybe this is the same?

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Originally Posted By: hgordon
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Hmmm…

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Originally Posted By: Greg Fretwell
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I bet there is 240v in that plug. A 3 light tester just looks at the 3 pins as a delta. The only way I can think that you get all 3 lights is if both hot and “neutral” have voltage on them (ref ground) and they are out of phase. The hot/neutral light is the bright one, seeing 240v. The 2 to ground see 120v.


I am surprised this would blow a suretest. It never hurt my Ecos, in fact that is one of the documented results.

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Originally Posted By: jwilliams4
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Time to get the ol’ Amprobe!

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Originally Posted By: apightling
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Yep, 240 is the only non fault situation that would cause this. I suppose you could have some wildly convoluted fault with hot shorted to neutral, an incorrect neutral breaker blown and a bad ground . . . too wierd . . 'gotta be 240 wired.



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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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are out of phase???


Someone help

RLB

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Originally Posted By: dbowers
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When you checked the outlet with your volts/ohm meter what did it say??

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Originally Posted By: jhagarty
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Dan:


Did not check it for amps or voltage.

This was only a single representative sampling of the electrical problems in this 80-90 year old home.

Report called for a total rewiring of the home.

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Originally Posted By: apightling
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I would flag that one as a dangerous condition and advise the client to get an electrician involved asap.



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