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I have an electrical issue at the house that I can't work out. One light fixture barely getting any juice, then another out completely. I have been up in the attic trying to track down the circuit that controls these fixtures with no luck. If anybody has a recomendation for a good, honest residential electrician, I could use some help.

Thanks - Steve Stinson

Joel Foy (850) 562-3691

Sounds like you have a loose connection in the fixture that is all the way "out"? Probably an "open neutral' in that box?? My guess? Have you been messing around with anything??

Wevans -
Thanks, I will give him a call.

Charlie - Nope. I try not to mess around with anything, since repairs tend to cut into my fishing time. At first, I though this was a bad bulb. When I replaced the old style bulb with one of the new type bulbs, the new one barely glows at the base. Then I thought perhaps it was the light fixture, so I went off to Ace Hardware and bought a new one. The new fixture does the same thing.

So, then I tried climbing in the attic to track down the run of wire. After swimming around in the pink insulation up there and not being able to figure out which run went where, I decided to get some help.

- Steve

Charlie is correct.
Bad neutral.

Jumptrout51 wrote:Charlie is correct.
Bad neutral.

I'am having the same problem with a room in my house. My wife unplugged the computer from the wall socket, there was a spark and there is no power to all outlets in that room. I tried resetting the breaker but no luck. Me and electricity have nothing in common. The extent of my electrical knowledge is changing a light bulb.

Reelbad -- are your breakers labeled correctly?? This will require you to reset all your timed appliances -- but go thru and turn every breaker "off" and then back "on"!! And see if the power is "on" inthat room. If not, then i'm thinking the problem is in that receptacle that sparked -- might be loosely installed and her moving the receptacle itself caused it to ground out or blow the wire off that receptacle which might be feeding the balance of the outlets in that room???

Steve ---- loose neutral is hard to figure out -- circuitwise - unless you know exactly how the house was wired. So ----- it's kind of a guessing game of opening up boxes , and removing light fixtures until you come across the loose neutral. There is an old "electrician's arguement concerning "twisting the wires" of a splice before installing the wire nut -- some guys do it, some don't!! But odds are that it is in that box feeding the dimming lamp.

And one other thing about "electrical troubleshooting"! Hunting down "one" electrical problem can sometimes take some time. Now, if two circuit problems exist, at the same time, it can drive you nuts!! Because nothing makes sense!! Had a buddy of mine, owned a big printing shop, and we used to do all his electrical work. Some of these machines would have hundreds of relays in there controls. When he had a problem, he would never call me, he first, would try fixing it himself -- if course causing sometimes two and three additional problems -- which made troubleshooting impossible!!