Wgoodrich
May 30th, 2009, 12:38 PM
No pics but still a good story. Received a call from a long time buddy that has been tricking a house getting ready to sell. A new buyer has declared already they wanted it. While this new buyer was there in the middle of reconstruction process the new buyer was looking at the breaker box. He found a breaker in the halfway position thinking it was tripped. This house was a repo bought for tricking. The new buyer pointed it out to the present owner while that same new buyer reset and turned on the breaker. Now he knows you should not be messen where you are not sure what is going on. Fire flew out of the edges of the cover of the panel box. Two breakers were then tripped. My buddy called me scratching his head as to what happened.
After research found a rubber cord running above a false ceiling from a door bell transformer with an open junction where the old owner tapped into a new circuit because he lost power to the kitchen light. Ran the rubber cord from the door bell transformer to the kitchen light tapping into the middle of the dead circuit and after resetting one breaker and the other breaker in the 1/2 off position he had lights and probably has been happy clear up till he lost the house to repo. What he actually did was tap a second power source to the middle of the first circuit and created a 220 volt head on collision if that one breaker was ever discovered to be in the 1/2 way position and was reset which the new buyer happened to find. Wonder how many years it worked that way with that breaker in the halfway position.
Wg
After research found a rubber cord running above a false ceiling from a door bell transformer with an open junction where the old owner tapped into a new circuit because he lost power to the kitchen light. Ran the rubber cord from the door bell transformer to the kitchen light tapping into the middle of the dead circuit and after resetting one breaker and the other breaker in the 1/2 off position he had lights and probably has been happy clear up till he lost the house to repo. What he actually did was tap a second power source to the middle of the first circuit and created a 220 volt head on collision if that one breaker was ever discovered to be in the 1/2 way position and was reset which the new buyer happened to find. Wonder how many years it worked that way with that breaker in the halfway position.
Wg
