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I get really fed up posting questions on forums and having people "answer" me who have no clue what they're talking about, so I came here to ask the pros!!!.................
After having great success a few years ago wiring my girlfriend's storage shed for 220, I now have my own house and ran 50 amp service to my garage for an electric hoist, lights and welder, etc.
So everything is buried nice and tidy underground - 6/3 with a ground, all put inside 2" conduit with a new sub panel in the garage.
KEEP IN MIND HERE THAT ALL I DID TO FINALIZE MY WIRING WAS TO WIRE UP A NEW LIGHT SWITCH IN THE GARAGE, SO IT DRAWS POWER FROM THE NEW PANEL AND NOT THE 110 VAC HOUSE CIRCUIT.
After finishing up the wiring task today and double-checking everything in both panels, I switched on the breaker in the house and BOINK - my new lights in the garage are flickering and REALLY dim.
I just saw on a youtube video that a guy said to "isolate" the neutral and ground buss bars, and that there was supposed to be a green screw to remove to do this. My problem is, I installed the ground bar, as the box didn't come with one and I seriously don't believe that it came with any type of "insulators" to isolate the connection from the panel.
So, is the ground bar my problem and how do I determine if it's isolated from the panel/neutral bar?
As for my photo, you can see that I painted the red leg so it matches the other one. The white lead goes to the neutral buss bar and the bare copper ground runs to the ground strip on the left....................but as I said before I REALLY don't think that's insulated from the panel because it's screwed right to the metal box. I put it there!!!!
HELP!!!! And thanks a bunch!!!
After having great success a few years ago wiring my girlfriend's storage shed for 220, I now have my own house and ran 50 amp service to my garage for an electric hoist, lights and welder, etc.
So everything is buried nice and tidy underground - 6/3 with a ground, all put inside 2" conduit with a new sub panel in the garage.
KEEP IN MIND HERE THAT ALL I DID TO FINALIZE MY WIRING WAS TO WIRE UP A NEW LIGHT SWITCH IN THE GARAGE, SO IT DRAWS POWER FROM THE NEW PANEL AND NOT THE 110 VAC HOUSE CIRCUIT.
After finishing up the wiring task today and double-checking everything in both panels, I switched on the breaker in the house and BOINK - my new lights in the garage are flickering and REALLY dim.
I just saw on a youtube video that a guy said to "isolate" the neutral and ground buss bars, and that there was supposed to be a green screw to remove to do this. My problem is, I installed the ground bar, as the box didn't come with one and I seriously don't believe that it came with any type of "insulators" to isolate the connection from the panel.
So, is the ground bar my problem and how do I determine if it's isolated from the panel/neutral bar?
As for my photo, you can see that I painted the red leg so it matches the other one. The white lead goes to the neutral buss bar and the bare copper ground runs to the ground strip on the left....................but as I said before I REALLY don't think that's insulated from the panel because it's screwed right to the metal box. I put it there!!!!
HELP!!!! And thanks a bunch!!!