Hey hoping someone can help. I have installed over 40 of the dimmer and non-dimming switches in this building. I also have Re-wired the entire building. This is not my first time completing electrical work, but I am stumped.
Ok so I have a bank of three switches in a triple gang box. When I was wiring in the first light fixture I checked for voltage on the hot and there was nothing.
I proceed to strip the neutral and ground and I get a nice zap from the neutral... So I retraced every wire and connection. The voltage was clearly coming from the switch.
So I removed all the wires from the switches to check for internal shorts. There was no connectivity between any of the poles.
I continued troubleshooting by only connecting the line and tested each of the three switches. Each switch presented 118 vac neutral to ground without the neutral or load wires connected. Every other switch in the building shows zero or near zero volts neutral to ground.
So the questions are;
Are these switches bad?
What would cause the switch to connect 118vac out to ground?
I am afraid to wire in another new switch until I understand what happened. It seems so strange that three switches were all bad in the same way, on the same circuit as other switches that are fine all at the first time being energized.
Thank you in advance!!
Ok so I have a bank of three switches in a triple gang box. When I was wiring in the first light fixture I checked for voltage on the hot and there was nothing.
I proceed to strip the neutral and ground and I get a nice zap from the neutral... So I retraced every wire and connection. The voltage was clearly coming from the switch.
So I removed all the wires from the switches to check for internal shorts. There was no connectivity between any of the poles.
I continued troubleshooting by only connecting the line and tested each of the three switches. Each switch presented 118 vac neutral to ground without the neutral or load wires connected. Every other switch in the building shows zero or near zero volts neutral to ground.
So the questions are;
Are these switches bad?
What would cause the switch to connect 118vac out to ground?
I am afraid to wire in another new switch until I understand what happened. It seems so strange that three switches were all bad in the same way, on the same circuit as other switches that are fine all at the first time being energized.
Thank you in advance!!
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