I put in a 15A P fuse after changing all my plugs. One blew. None of the outlets prior to the changed were %26quot;broken%26quot; across the connection. Are there wires touching or grounding out somewhere? Thanks.
I recently changed all my outlets. When I put the fuse back in it blew immediately. What would be the problem?
You have done the obvious, a short in one of the boxes you were working in, hot to ground or hot to neutral. Or you gotten your wires crossed from hot to neutral on the receptacles.
Maybe shoving the wires back in the back a ground has shorted out as well to a metal box or a hot wire.
Needless to say you have to find that problem :
Hint start in the middle of the circuit and see what it looks like of you see nothing leave all your wires apart and replace fuse if it stays on then you know that the problem is in the second half of your circuit. If it does not then you know it is in your first half and either way you will know which way to look. Unless you have a continuity tester then you can check as you go to find the problem.
Good Luck :)
I recently changed all my outlets. When I put the fuse back in it blew immediately. What would be the problem?
You either put a hot and a neutral together on an outlet somewhere, or a ground wire is touching the screws on the hot side somewhere in that circuit. If all the colors are right, hot and neutral, look for a ground wire touching.
You have a direct short on the line, you either miss wired an outlet or %26quot;skinned%26quot; a wire in the process allowing it to contact the outlet box. This will ground the circuit and blow the fuse. inspect your wiring and check that you don't have a wire touching ground.
Sounds like a short between live and earth or neutral. When you put the socket outlets back on you might have trapped a wire against the back box damaging the insulation and causing a short to earth. If you have a continuity tester try using it to track down which socket is causing the problem by process of elimination. If the fault doesn't show at all with a continuity tester on the whole circuit try an insulation resistance meter (which you should test the circuit with anyway after alterations). You will probably find a small area of localized burning on the cable where the fault occured. If you don't know what any of this means get an electrician to do your electrical jobs for you.
Usually, romex or BX cable contains a white, black and bare copper wire. The bare copper wire is used for a grounding wire and is attached at every metal box and the bottom of every outlet where a green screw is placed. You connect all white wires to white wire, all black wires to black then connect all bare wires together in a junction box. Run romex to the outlet and connect white to the chrome side of the outlet and the black to the brass side. Attach the bare copper wire to the outlet's green screw. You can run a white wire, black wire and bare wire from one outlet to another following the same connection rule as above.
Since outlets do not conduct electricity until something is plugged into them and turned on, the size of fuse would not matter. Any size from 15 amps or less would not blow. If any fuse blows it means that a white wire is touching the black somewhere in your wiring, either at a junction box or at the outlet boxes. Open the boxes and check to determine if there is a white connected to black wire or if the white wire is on the wrong side of an outlet. You may find a wire nut fell off the wires somewhere causing a wire to make contact with another creating a circuit. You may also notice that the insulation from a black wire is exposed as well as the insulation from a white wire. The two wires can touch also creating a circuit. These situations can be eliminated using electrical tape wrapped around the wire nuts and wire to prevent them from coming loose. Do not use masking tape or friction tape as they can conduct electricity.
Did you change the kitchen plugs as well and if so did you remove the tab between the hot side of plug since all kitchen plugs are known to be split receptacles--
