{"id":1349,"date":"2008-07-13T21:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2008-07-13T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:26:26","slug":"330-volt-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"330 Volt Circuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Help<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I guess I know even less about wiring than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I found a loose piece of Romex hanging down in my air handler closet. It was live. Tonight I traced it to the circuit panel and tested the voltage. I got 163 volts. I checked another breaker and got 327 volts.<\/p>\n<p>Am I going crazy? I have heard of 110, 220, and 480. I have never heard of these odd new voltages. The weird thing is, it&#8217;s on the same panel as a  bunch of 110 circuits.<\/p>\n<p><b>More<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Turns out I don&#8217;t know how to operate a Fluke meter. My meter does not autorange, so you have to have the correct range selected, or it tells you garbage. The actual voltages are 440 and 220.<\/p>\n<p>Some doofus used #12 Romex to run a 220 circuit on a 20-amp breaker, and he left the ground wire dangling inside the panel. So you hook a three-prong receptacle up to this thing, and you think it&#8217;s grounded, and then you die, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now I have a nice piece of Romex I can easily use to create a 220 socket in the garage. My question: is 220 with a 20-amp breaker and #12 wire useful for anything? I would think anything that runs on 220 would suck enough juice to pop that breaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help I guess I know even less about wiring than I thought. I found a loose piece of Romex hanging down in my air handler closet. It was live. Tonight I traced it to the circuit panel and tested the voltage. I got 163 volts. I checked another breaker and got 327 volts. Am I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}