Got a troubleshooting call today, seemed to be a typical bad neutral scenario, but something odd was taking place.
I was reading 117V on one leg and 127 on the other (to ground) and 244V between them, with all circuits on. With all circuits off, it stabilized to 122V per leg, with 244V between them, which is closer to normal for around here. I elimated the circuits one at a time until I was down to the 120V pump circuit and a bedroom light/receptacle circuit that appeared to be the culprits in bringing down the leg that drops 5V.
My question is: what is making the other leg rise by 5V at the same time, when these circuits are not multiwire, and no other circuits are effected?
I'm still thinking a bad neutral, but where?
Wouldn't a bad neutral effect every 120V circuit in the house, either rising it or dropping it with respect to the resistive loads?
[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 02-03-2002).]
