All Forum Posts by: Loren Thomas

I'm good with cars. In the last 6 months I bought, fixed, and then sold 8 cars. In order for me to continue I really need to get a dealer license here in the great state of Washington. The requirements of which require me to have space in an enclosed structure at a commercial property, amongst other things. I need to rent a cheap space.

I don't need said commercial space to do any work on the cars, I have other facilities (family member's residential shop) for that. Is there an out of the box thinker that can figure some sort of rental space that I can register the license to? 

I have heard of some "hanging" their license at existing dealerships, but I'm trying to avoid that. Even though I haven't found one that even does that thus far.

Hola. If the amperage is the same, and the wires are the right size for that amperage, you're probably ok. But it sounds like you are trying to run a dryer off of a 20 amp AC outlet? Dryers are typically 30 amp. You cannot do that.

Lights/Rec is just Lights/Outlets (receptacles)

 PM'd but feel free to ask here so other can see/benefit

You're saying an appliance is fed from (2) 50A breakers, each in a separate electrical panel?

I really doubt that's a legal configuration. I cant say for sure though. At the very least it's not industry standard. 

What sort of property was this?

That's interesting! Could be a lot of things, none of them too good. If you can test them for power with a hot stick do that, then if theres no power just cut em out. But they appear to be 120v wires for an outlet or light or something? Do you know where they go or come from?

Sorta hard to tell from the picture, could be a ground for cable or phone. But if it's only attached to vinyl... it's not doing anything!

Hard to say. If it was in your kitchen, it should have been GFCI protected and tripped there. Perhaps there wasn't enough of a DIRECT short to tell the breaker to trip (think welder) or maybe the breaker is old or malfunctioning.

It could be a few things. Space heaters are notorious for causing these kinds of problems. If she must use a space heater plugging it into a 20A outlet (garage, kitchen, bathroom... with extension cord) will work better. If the circuit was overloaded maybe the blame could be hers, but obviously there is something strange happening with the wiring that is likely not her fault. Really though, why not use the central heat? 

Yes, if you are connecting dissimilar metals to each other.

Alternatively you could buy the wire nuts that have deox in them (they're purple), and pigtail copper wires to the existing aluminum wiring. That way you can use standard cheap outlets.

There isn't anything wrong with aluminum wiring. Most services here are fed with aluminum. The problem is when people mix it's ampacity with copper wiring and overheat the wires. Keep the correct breaker in place and there will be no problem. 

There are some solutions to a house with no ground, but it's usually cheaper to just rewire it.