MrShpongle
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One of the circuits in my house (totally unrelated to my grow room) has gone crazy. I'm getting power surges and dropouts randomly on one circuit - everything else is normal. I'm reading as high as 193 volts on some outlets and 40-50 volts on others. When I turned the breaker off, I still get 35 volts on some outlets, while others go to zero. Again, this is all limited to a single circuit.
My guess is that somewhere another circuit is bleeding into this one, but I have no idea how or why. The house had a completely new electrical system installed in 1992. A sparky friend has suggested that I shut down power to the entire house, find one of outlets that stayed hot even when the breaker was off, and wire the neutral to the ground as a way to solve the problem. Is this safe? I have plenty of experience to do this sort of repair, but I don't have enough to search the entire house for the short that started all of this.
My guess is that somewhere another circuit is bleeding into this one, but I have no idea how or why. The house had a completely new electrical system installed in 1992. A sparky friend has suggested that I shut down power to the entire house, find one of outlets that stayed hot even when the breaker was off, and wire the neutral to the ground as a way to solve the problem. Is this safe? I have plenty of experience to do this sort of repair, but I don't have enough to search the entire house for the short that started all of this.