I'm going to buy a cheap circuit tester and do some investigating.

Well all the grounds are good on that circuit. Unless anyone can think of something I should check, I guess I'm going to hook it back up.

Do a resistance check from neutral to ground. The grounds and neutrals typically are bonded at the panel. Sometimes you will find floating neutrals which means its isolated. However the xo bond coming from the secondary side of transformers creates ground aka your zero reference point

Yes go ahead and make it all up include your new wire that you were going to run twist all your light colors clockwise under a wired nut with the short jumper wire to your individual device and It will give you best results

Here is a splice with 3 nm cables and the jumper wires to the outlet. Twist wires clockwise as this is how the wirenuts tighten

So after testing all the outlets on that circuit ( and the rest of the house which is ok), the receptacles on that breaker all have an open ground. Looks like I get to spend some quality time in my attic tomorrow.

@Lebens I'll give this a try tomorrow too

@Placidseven - MO run a new feed

@Lebens i most likely will. I already have the dry wall cut away from running stereo wire and cat5.

@Placidseven - MO and rebuild the ckt like greg sharded a pic of

Yeah I'm using that on all my receptacles for now on. Very clean.

This method also changes the ckt to parallel. In parallel ckts the device can fail and usually will not disable the whole ckt as it will in series

Very cool

Just wanted to give a thanks to @Lebens and @Deleted User. I got my issue resolved. It was a ground that had been painted over.

Crazy stuff. Glad to help. Hope to see u in cville!

Anytime

@Lebens u going to cville

No sir. During the summer i work non stop. Feast or famon and ive got plenty of mouths to feed brother

Installing a furnace today

out with the old

in with the new

I know its not electrical but my skills are diverse..... and diversity is our strength goys

👌

Any of you guys know what this is. It was wired up to a light receptacle in my basement.

Low voltage step down transformer

@Placidseven - MO are you remodeling your home?

@RevStench more like fixing a poorly remodeled home

Oh haha Well I guess you know some things are done right now.

For the doorbell @Placidseven - MO

@Lebens finishing up HVAC school in Feb (18 months). U have any general advice for me? Any areas of the trade i should stay away from, go toward? Im getting straight As but there is just so much to know, areas to go, I feel disoriented. Any advice id greatly appreciate it

@REVNAT/PA bro general advice from another tradesman, I went to trade school for machine tool and now I'm a carpenter, and I specialize in historic preservation. Try everything in your field, and find what you enjoy then find the guys who will pay you the most haha

I recommend targeting residential service companies

Start as an installer. Move up to tech.

Move up to sales tech

Spend some time learning the business and start contracting

^^^ becoming the contractor is the endgame!

Yes sir

@Deleted User @Lebens how long does it take to become a certified electrician?