I needed to go to the store for low voltage lighting wire. Before I went, I checked for pricing of low voltage wiring. I needed six feet, but the minimum amount was fifty feet. That would be $18.00 for just the six feet I needed. I also had to bury the wire, so I would…
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We finally got a very nice weekend to work on landscaping. I cleared the yard of sticks, mowed the lawn, and sprayed for weeds; I was ready to tackle the lighting project. I grabbed the box of lights and read the instructions. (Yes, I read the instructions.) I started putting the pathway lights together as…
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I was ready for low voltage lighting. I made that decision last fall when we put the solar lights away for winter. Since the GFCI worked, we had the capability to install low voltage lights. Efiwym, my wife, did not seemed interested in this project. I was not sure of why the apathy, but I…
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My wife, Efiwym, loved her solar outdoor lighting. We had a myriad of types of solar lights throughout the years. Usually the batteries would not recharge, or the weather did a number on the finishes of the lighting. Efiwym would do her annual spring troubleshooting to get the solar lights to work. She would replace…
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After investing in a battery powered riding lawn mower, I needed to install another GFCI in the garage to charge it. There are 3 outlet boxes around the garage, but not one where I need one. Our beverage refrigerators have been on extension cords since we had one in the garage. I attributed the refrigerator…
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When I ran underground wire for our front post light, I installed a GFCI box where the wire came out of the house. The GFCI outlet never worked. I did some troubleshooting initially, but I could not solve the problem. That was 34 years ago. Yes, 34 years ago. I walked by that GFCI for…
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I think it was over a month before the GFCI tripped again. You could imagine that things Efiwym, my wife, wanted to say to me. She had that look on her face that I was so familiar with when she told me the GFCI tripped. I had spent about $150 trying to solve this problem. …
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Now that I was focused on the GFCI outlet, I needed to see if it indeed was the problem. I checked the GFCI outlet with a voltmeter. I noticed that you needed to press the probes deeply into the outlet slots to get the voltmeter to read. The outlet was over 35 years old, so…
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Several months ago, we had a problem with our cordless toothbrushes. The batteries would no longer charge. We had them for several years, so I was not surprised that the batteries were going bad. I did the normal troubleshooting. I cleaned the base of the charger and the bottom of the toothbrush and tried to…