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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3291144" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>Its amazing how much I've learned about residential electrical wiring just because it interacts with cable wiring. Had a customer who "rewired" his house himself, this included cable, phone, data and electrical. The cable, phone and data he did a good job on (even used quad shield coax which surprised the hell out of me). But he was constantly having issues afterwards and blamed Cox for it. I was like tech number 20th in a 4 month span. I was outside testing everything I could think of when all of the sudden I got a nasty shock while touching the ground block (I had already tested for ground feedback and found none). I tested it again, nothing. I went in to ask him what he was just doing and he said he was microwaving something. I went out, hooked up my multimeter and told him to fire it up again, sure enough I was getting 126 v off the ground block. I took in my outlet tester and he had wired up that outlet backwards on ground vs neutral (don't ask me how). Tested other outlets and found several others that were the same. This was early in my days as a field tech and since then I've looked up and studied house electrical to learn more about it. </p><p></p><p>And the more I know the more I kinda freak out when I go into attics and see the butchery that people pass for electrical wiring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3291144, member: 43724"] Its amazing how much I've learned about residential electrical wiring just because it interacts with cable wiring. Had a customer who "rewired" his house himself, this included cable, phone, data and electrical. The cable, phone and data he did a good job on (even used quad shield coax which surprised the hell out of me). But he was constantly having issues afterwards and blamed Cox for it. I was like tech number 20th in a 4 month span. I was outside testing everything I could think of when all of the sudden I got a nasty shock while touching the ground block (I had already tested for ground feedback and found none). I tested it again, nothing. I went in to ask him what he was just doing and he said he was microwaving something. I went out, hooked up my multimeter and told him to fire it up again, sure enough I was getting 126 v off the ground block. I took in my outlet tester and he had wired up that outlet backwards on ground vs neutral (don't ask me how). Tested other outlets and found several others that were the same. This was early in my days as a field tech and since then I've looked up and studied house electrical to learn more about it. And the more I know the more I kinda freak out when I go into attics and see the butchery that people pass for electrical wiring. [/QUOTE]
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