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6. maybe take a voltage test on both legs at the first junction in the barn (if 240)

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Sun Sep 26, 2021, 05:30 PM

Sep 2021

that will tell you where to look. the well pump (if 240) could run without a common, but the outlets and lights wouldn't.

edit: does the power go to the meter on the house, inside to the box, and then feed out? if so it could be that one leg isn't making a good connection on that first juction, only feeding a single leg to the trailer and having nothing going on the second leg to the far end. anyway, i slept somewhere and this is all i know

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electricity, not may favorite topic but need help EDIT to revise barn lights [View all] Kali Sep 2021 OP

Could just be a bad breaker. They go bad especially doc03 Sep 2021 #1

switching them around it is only if a breaker is in one slot that trips Kali Sep 2021 #4

I need to correct the reply I made earlier. Kali Sep 2021 #10

Well this maybe a dead end suggestion but GFI outlets that have CentralMass Sep 2021 #2

That is another one GFI breakers, I had one go doc03 Sep 2021 #3

don't have any of those down there Kali Sep 2021 #5

maybe take a voltage test on both legs at the first junction in the barn (if 240) taxi Sep 2021 #6

the answer to the question of meter Kali Sep 2021 #7

if you are comfortable with disconnecting the second line at the feed? taxi Sep 2021 #8

I am not that comfortable but the husband will mess around in the panel Kali Sep 2021 #9

where is the breaker that is tripped? tikka Sep 2021 #11

it is on the panel on the shed/garage Kali Sep 2021 #12

Without being there, the tripped circuit breaker must control tikka Sep 2021 #13

yeah it has been so long since we lost the well I don't remember Kali Sep 2021 #14