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Mon, Feb 21, 11 at 21:59
| Hoping for some advance from the experts. I recently added a new 15A circuit breaker to my panel as a dedicated line for the sump pump in my basement. I felt everything went well. As I walk throughout the house now, many of the lights flicker every few minutes. These lights are on a few different breakers. I'm thinking I need to make sure all connections are tight on the bus bars. Also, the ground and nuetral wires on connected on the same busbar slot for each breaker. I connected the new breaker's nuetral and ground a few open slots below the nearest connected slot. Do you think that might cause the flicker?
Thanks for your help! Rick |
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- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Tue, Feb 22, 11 at 8:04
| The bus bar shouldn't be a problem. Is the flickering coincident with the pump running (or anything else starting up for that matter)? What do you mean by flicker? Momentary dimming? Complete backout for a second? |
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| Induction motors (like the ones used in pumps) pull very large currents every time they start. It typically shows as very brief dimming of lights. |
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| Put the pump on the other phase in the panel. Maybe most of your lights are on the same phase at the pump is now. Worth a shot. |
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| "Put the pump on the other phase in the panel. Maybe most of your lights are on the same phase at the pump is now. Worth a shot." Leg, NOT PHASE. Residential power is most commonly 120 V/ 240 V SINGLE phase. |
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