I have a live wire coming from a breaker box on my house. The wire is buried underground, and is inside of a PVC pipe and goes out to my barn. How would I find it with this? Would I need to disconnet the wire from the breaker box in order to attach the clamps? I have a live wire coming from a breaker box on my house. The wire is buried underground, and is inside of a PVC pipe and goes out to my barn. How would I find it with this? Would I need to... » Read More I have a live wire coming from a breaker box on my house. The wire is buried underground, and is inside of a PVC pipe and goes out to my barn. How would I find it with this? Would I need to disconnet the wire from the breaker box in order to attach the clamps? « Show Less
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I had a contractor help me with this - but I think you need to disconnect both ends from power and then connect one end to the tool so you can use the dongle end to follow the wire inside the PVC pipe. This is tough to use - and a little hit or miss - but we did not find anything better to use and it helped us a lot. Good luck.
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Yes,Always disconnect power to wires before toning them out with a wire locator. Then follow the instrucitons with the underground wire locator to trace the direction and location of your buried wires.
861376
No, but you will need to turn that breaker off. Use a meter and double check that there is no power on that circuit. If in doubt, then pull the wires for that circuit.
861377
This test kit is primarily designed to trace "unpowered" lines that are also not connected at the neutral or ground connections. The best way to work the test is to completely disconnect that line from the service panel. Black, white and bare wires. You can then safely connect the transmitter red wire to the black wire of the line to be located. You should also then connect the black wire from the transmitter to a good ground. I have used this exact kit to find many concealed wires over the last few months and it works great.
861378
Yes u would need to disconnect at the circuit. It is the only way to send the signal
861379
you definitely have to turn off ac power. the 2nd clamp can go to the bare (earth ground) wire
594196
On the coiled cord is the alligator clip. Pull that straight off and underneath is a "banana" plug. I stuck that into the ground pin hole of an electrical outlet, which should be your house ground.
1811944
You use the rod to insert into the ground. For example, my house is a ranch style home, my bed is near a window and I connect the sheet to the ground cord that runs outside my window that connects to the grounding rod that is inserted into the ground. If you do not have that kind of access you can simply insert the cord into the ground that is located in your nearest electrical outlet. The kit comes with a ground checker to make sure that your electrical outlet is properly configured.
61259
I'm not an electrician. To my knowledge, three wires should supplied to a switch. You should have a green wire (ground) coming into the plastic box. That should be hooked to the ground screw on the switch. If a green wire was not pulled with the hot (black) and the neutral (white, sometimes gray), then you need to contact a liscensed electrical contractor. Finally, if you have any question about what's the hot, neutral and ground wire, then instead of getting knocked on the ground, or worse, consult an electrician
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There is a small enclosed tool that has a socket and small wrench. Look at it closely and you will see the foldaway piece that holds the wire.
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The wire is part of the unit and it will come as a loop attached to both sides of the fuse case. When you determine where you want to attach it, you cut the wire loop to give you 2 tag ends to make the necessary connection.
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You do have to be pretty close to the wire for the sensor to pick it up, so I don't think it would detect it at all underground. Besides that, even if it could, it's not designed to clarify where an abrupt end to a signal is, so if you lost the signal, it could mean the wire is broke or you are no longer following the wire. Bottom line, this tool is not the way to resolve your problem.
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Yes, you can bury in the ground with pvc for protection against frost movement of rocks and tree roots. pvc pipe is cheap. In the future you may plant something forgetting where the cable is and cut it with a shovel. As an electrican I never put any kind of cable in the ground without some lind of abrasion protection. It sure beats having to replace a whole cable because someone cut it years from now digging a hole for a bush.
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There are knockout plugs on the back to bring the power in. You will have to supply the breaker for your main service panel if you don't already have one available. I located the box on the exterior side of my garage in a location that was slightly offset from the main service panel on the inside of the garage and about 2' off the ground. I then ran the romex from the breaker slot down through the bottom of the service panel, down through the wall and then out through a predrilled hole in the exterior wall and in through the back of the box using a knockout hole. Point of clarification....by brother, the licensed electrician, actually did the work. Very clean setup. There are knockout plugs on the back to bring the power in. You will have to supply the breaker for your main service panel if you don't already have one available. I located the box on the exterior side of my garage in a location that was slightly offset from the main service panel on the inside of the garage and about 2' off the ground. I then ran the romex from the breaker slot down through the bottom of the service panel, down through the wall and then out through a predrilled hole in the exterior wall and in through the back of the box using a knockout hole. Point of... » Read More There are knockout plugs on the back to bring the power in. You will have to supply the breaker for your main service panel if you don't already have one available. I located the box on the exterior side of my garage in a location that was slightly offset from the main service panel on the inside of the garage and about 2' off the ground. I then ran the romex from the breaker slot down through the bottom of the service panel, down through the wall and then out through a predrilled hole in the exterior wall and in through the back of the box using a knockout hole. Point of clarification....by brother, the licensed electrician, actually did the work. Very clean setup. « Show Less
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1st, i'm not an electician. i tried running it into the top was very difficult to get the "outlet" back in the box once wired cause the heavy gauge wire has to do a 180 turn in the box. I changed it to feed in from the bottom, wire the box 1st, tighten and re-tighten the wire connections several times cause they loosen, put the outlet in the box. Then you have the slack wire taken out of the box and then have it hooked up to the service panel.
2197585
I drove a 4 foot grounding rod into the ground and wired (same size of wire or larger) it to the ground lead from the surge protector. This gives the protector way to bleed of any surge and dump it to ground. If location will not allow you to drive a rod, you can run wire back to a house ground and attach to it.
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My timer came with three wires, one that acted like the input wire, one that acted like the output wire, and the third is to be connected to the ground. My guess is if you do not have a ground in your house wiring, then do not connect the ground to anything. that seems to be fairly typical for older homes. I've had a couple of houses that were older and there were no ground wires, either. The ground wire is usually uninsulated.
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If an animal is not touching the soil when coming in contact with the hot wire, they would not be grounded and would not feel the shock. We would recommend setting up a two-wire system in this case. Our Consumer Relations Team can be reached at 1-855-5-FISHOCK (1-855-534-7462) for more information on this setup.
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The 3rd hole of your outlet has to be grounded & there is a tester included in the pkg you will receive w/ your sheet. If your outlet is not grounded there is a rod included to set outside the window in the ground w/ an extremely long cord on it to connect your sheet. Very clever and well made. If you test your outlet and find that it is grounded you do not have to use the grounding rod. Just plug the cord into the hole in your outlet and your sheet is now grounded.
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I have a seventy year old house and there is only a black and white, no ground wire. The Lutron switch has two black wires and a ground. I hooked the black wires up to the black and white and the switch did NOT work without a ground. I know, because I tried it that way and then called their help line and they confirmed that a ground is necessary. The box that I put the switch in is metal and I read that the 'old school way,' when they built a house, was to wrap one wire around a box and then string that wire to the next box, and so on, until the end and where they just ground the one wire. So, I attached the switch ground to the box, and it worked. I don't know if that helps, but I thought I would share that older houses WON'T have a ground wire.
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One of your questions answers the other. The "peculiar diagram" is a diagram of a piece of wire with a portion of the insulation stripped off. The little arrow points to the notch in which you should place the wire. Quoting from the documentation included with the tool.... "The wire-stripper is the groove located on the wire stripper strut. To use, hold the tool so that the handle with the lock release is on your right. Open this handle enough to move it away from the wire-stripper strut. Insert the wire into the groove and gently close the handle to cut through the outer insulation of the wire. Twist and pull wire to strip (see drawing located on the wire-stripper strut)."
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I would not bury this directly in the ground, needs to be put into electrical PVC conduit. Or the wire will degrade if installed directly in the dirt,and stop working