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We have no relationship with advertisers, products, or services discussed at this website. Electrical wiring FAQs for manufactured mobile homes This article contains questions answers that assist in electrical diagnosis repair for mobile homes, manufactured homes, doublewides, trailers and RVs. We include diagnostic questions answers about manufactured or mobile home electrical system defects, troubleshooting, repairs, codes. Mobile home electrical panels, wiring, lights, switches inspect repair. Branch circuit breakers. Listed to UL 489 as molded case circuit breaker for use on lighting circuits. LCP128260933 CSI Spec. Author. Example of wiring a detached garage or detached building designed as a storage garage, based on the 2002 NEC. Electrical System Diagnosis Repair FAQs Mobile Homes, Double wides, Trailers. MOBILE HOME ELECTRICAL WIRING FAQs CONTENTS diagnostic questions answers about. Safety and building codes for mobile homes. This article series describes How to Inspect Mobile Homes or Manufactured Housing Electrical Wiring, Electrical Panel, and other Electrical Components for Defects detailed procedures, defect lists, references to standards. Green links show where you are. Copyright 2. 01. 7 Inspect. Apedia. com, All Rights Reserved. Electrical System Troubleshooting Questions Answers for Campers, Mobile Homes, Doublewides, Manufactured Homes. These questions answers about mobile home electrical systems were posted originally at MOBILE HOME ELECTRICAL DEFECTS or otherwise possibly at the bottom of this very article. How To Install A Gfci Protected Branch Circuit Breaker' title='How To Install A Gfci Protected Branch Circuit Breaker' />Reader Question intermittent electrical power loss in our 1. Redman doublewide. Jan 1 at 2am I lost power in a bedroom and 2 plug outlets in the living roomadjoining wall then on Jan 3 4 2. Where do I start lookin. I live in a 1. 99. Redman doublewide. Cindy 151. 2Reply Cindy, what worries me is that circuit breakers or fuses in residential buildings do not automatically reset themselves. So your symptom sounds like a loose connection or worse, a connection that is burning up or arcing. The age of your home suggests we should not find aluminum branch circuit wiring, which if present would make the problem more widespread. Typically we track down a loose connection by tracking the bad circuit beginning at the panel, examining every connector and device. Meanwhile, for safety, just turn off that electrical circuit until its repaired, and MAKE SURE you have working smoke detectors in the home. Reader Question loss of power at a electrical outlets in a mobile home or a doublewide. I have an outlet that went out in a bathroom, the light fixture still works there. The light fixture in the adjacent hallway no longer works. I have a 2. 00. 1 Spirit Double Wide. I also have two light fixtures that the lights go out about a week after I replace them. Jan 2. Payne said My grandfather has a 1. Connor mobile home he lost power at the kitchen one receptacle in the living room and middle room all completely out any ideas Or where I can find where the main power comes in cause it just suddenly went outJan 2. Kristy said We are renting an old single wide mobile home. Recently we were trying to put plastic over windows so we were plugging the blow dryer into several different outlets. While doing this, we noticed if we plugged it into a certain outlet that was also where the ceiling fan is plugged in, we lose power in one bedroom, bathroom, and the porch light. If we unplug it and wiggle the fan plug the power will come back onAlso when we plugged up to a different outlet it tripped the breaker for part of the house. When we reset the outlet in the bathroom quit working and hasnt worked sinceAny ideas Is it unsafe for us to be staying there The landlord is a real peach Theresa Dunn said We bought a used 1. Columbia double wide. We have power in the kitchen, dinning room, and masterbedroom all in one front of the home. In the livingroom we have 2 plugs with no power getting to them. We also have in the area where the fireplace is no power in that room at all and then no power in the two bedrooms in the back of the house but between all those non working rooms is a bathroom where we have lights the recepticle for the electrical plug did work but it now has stoped working. It worked when all those other places do not. Any help appreciated. We are trying to get our grandkids from cps and this is why we bought the home in the first place and the people we bought it from said it was working when we bought it and it was a as is purchase, There was no way for us to check the power on the lot it was sitting. Reply Tammy, sometimes a loose electrical connection causes arcing that can indeed affect bulb life. Ive also seen bulbs fail quickly in light fixtures that were overheating, either because a too large too many watts bulb was installedWATCH OUT THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD or because the fixture was improperly installed or insulated also a fire hazard. It is worth having an electrician check the wiring in your home not just to get the hall light working but to be sure there is not a fire risk. Meanwhile, be sure that you have working smoke detectors in the home. Payne, it sounds as if the two receptacles are on the same circuit and that the fault is either inside one of those electrical receptacle boxes or upstream electrically from them. But before starting to tear things up, look in the kitchen or bathrooms for a ground fault circuit interrupter GFCI on the same circuit that has tripped. Try pressing the re set button and check for power at the other receptacles. Watch out if elecrical wires have come loose, been burned, torn, damaged, this is an unsafe condition risking fire or shock. Kristy you are describing loose electrical wiring or a damaged receptacle which is unsafe, and you might also be describing an electrical circuit that is overloaded when the breaker trips its trying to preventy a fire that might be started by overloaded and thus over heated wiring. Kristy The only way you would need to move is if the peach of a landlord does not get a licensed electrician out there as soon as possible to get the short figured out. To have a loose connection is one thing but to have a short is worse. These are normal electrical repairs that should be performed as soon as possible. Itd be smart to shut off an electrical circuit that is acting oddly until it has been repaired by a licensed electrician. Notify the property owner in writing and orally of these unsafe conditions. Watch out because electrical hazards are also fire hazards, be sure that you have working smoke detectors properly installed and that the fire exit doors on your home are operable. Theresa re 1. 98. Columbia doublwide with no electrical power at many devices. You describe loss of electrical power in what sounds like multiple circuits in the home. If these circuits were really working before the home was moved to its present lot its still possible that the movement of travel loosened connectors in some of the circuits. Youll need an electrician to sort out and repair the trouble. Wiring a Detached Garage NEC 2. Example of wiring a detached garage or detached building designed. No minimum electrical wiring is required in a detached. You have several options in the designs to supply power to the detached structure. You should also refer to a link in this Home Wiring site called WIRING. A SERVICEfor details involving services and common services serving. There is a detailed section included. If you are attempting to wire a garage that is detached as an accessory building. NEC would be suggested as follows Minimum wiring required if electricity serves that. The minimum wiring required in a detached garage, that has electricity installed. Article 2. 10 7. A 2and a light. Vehicular doors of a garage. A minimum of one GFCI protected. Article 2. 10 5. Article 2. A 2. The. light that is installed to serve the inside of the garage, and controlled at. You may decide on an option to install. The first option using a three way switch serving the same light. Any second switch at any second service. There. is an exception available considering the stoop light. If you have a dusk to. Article 2. 10 7. A 2 Exception If you desire to provide more wiring you might want to check the following. All readily accessible receptacles. GFCI protected. Article 2. A 1 The following exceptions can apply, if they meet the requirements of the. If a duplex receptacle is located behind a large appliance such. GFCI. protection is not required to protect that duplex receptacle serving those. Article 2. 10 8 A 2 Exc. If a single receptacle. GFCI protection is also not required. Article 2. 10 8 A 2 Exc. If. a receptacle serving that large appliance is located so that it is readily. GFCI. Article 2. 10 8 A Exc. If you have a washer and a gas dryer, and the receptacle is designed so that. GFCI protection is not required, in this particular scenario. If you have receptacles out of reach not readily accessible such. GFCI protection is not required. These receptacles would not be considered. If you use normal lighting fixtures that are constructed. GFCI protection is not required. A light fixture with a receptacle mounted on the fixture must be GFCI protected. Article 2. 10 8 A 2. Any. receptacle dedicated as large appliance equipment, and that is not GFCI protected. Article 2. 10 8 A 2 Hazardous Locations Involving Garages There is a statement in the NEC that says you must not have electrical wiring. Class 1 hazardous location. Article 5. 11 3 A This. NEC requirement applies only to commercial garages, not residential garages. Residential garages are exempt from this requirement. Code Mute Be. careful of this rule. A detached garage may be declared by the authority. Article 9. 0 4 This ruling as to whether a detached. Special Circuits and Considerations in Design Outside receptacles, basement receptacles, and garage receptacles can be. GFCI device. If a kitchen or a bathroom is installed. Kitchen and bathroom receptacles must. Kitchen and bathrooms must have their own 2. Article 2. 10 5. B 2 and Article 2. C You should refer to wiring a kitchen. Type of GFCI Protective Devices to Choose From There are two forms of GFCI protective devices. You may use a receptacle. GFCI protective device, or a breaker style GFCI protective device. Both. devices are designed to be installed at the beginning of the. Do not install GFCI receptacles for more than. GFCI receptacle. as the first receptacle on that circuit and then install a normal receptacle. A breaker style GFCI protective device is designed. GFCI protective. device incorporated as one unit, and installed in the distribution panel. The receptacle style GFCI protective device. GFCI protective. device, incorporated as one unit and installed as the first receptacle on the. The receptacle style GFCI protective device is designed to protect. GFCI device installed on that same circuit coming. GFCI protective device located as the first receptacle on the. You might want to compare the cost factor between a. GFCI protective device, and the receptacle style GFCI protective. When you compare the difference in cost remember to price the normal. GFCI device compared to the breaker style. GFCI protective device, and a normal receptacle as required in each wiring. I suspect you will find the GFCI receptacle, and normal. GFCI breaker. Both devices will do the. Season 1 Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. NEC minimum requirements. Its your choice. Special Receptacle Configuration Designs Exempt From GFCI If you are using a circuit that is rated 2. GFCI protection is required. Number of Receptacles Allowed on a Branch Circuit Calculating the maximum number or receptacles allowed on a circuit. If you have a question as to how many receptacles are allowed on a circuit. This is allowed in Article 2. Actually if allowed by your Electrical Inspector you could discard the 8. If you discarded the 2. Just consider. what you plan to do in that garage and dont install more than the 1. If your inspector. Article 2. 10 1. Special Design Requirements Involving Motors Dedicated branch circuit design for motors only. If you are utilizing motors, or other such equipment, then you would have. Va. for 1. 2 ga., or 1,4. Va for 1. 4. ga. for continuous use at 8. Branch circuit conductors serving a single motor would be sized by Article 4. That answer will tell you the required ampacity of that. Table 3. 10 1. 6. Article 1. 10 1. C. Remember the ampacity. Also remember that Article 2. D is not exempt from consideration. Article 2. 40 3 D would not be allowed to be used. This exemption is for motors, only. If you have more than one motor, or motors and other loads on that feeder. The total amps you come up with would be the ampacity requirement. Article 4. 30 2. Also. Article 2. 10 2. A Remember, also, that for dwelling premises. Article 2. 10 2. B C For single circuit. Article 2. 40 3 D is. Code. When dealing with motors you may use the. Table 3. 10 1. 6 which is a bit. Remember these higher. Table 3. 10 1. 6 concerning these conductors. Most single phase motors contain. Articles 4. 30 3. Check the name plate of the motor, and you should find a block on that name. Tin that block on the. If so, then you have a thermally protected motor. For circuits with more than. Ga. is good for. 1. Ga. is good for 2. Ga. is good for 3. Ga. is good for 4. Article 2. 40 3 D A single motor load using the larger ampacity. Ga. ,1. 2 Ga, or 1. Ga found in Table 3. An arc welder would usually be rated at 6. Therefore a 6. Ga. Romex with an equipment grounding conductor containing a black, white and. No neutral. would be used. Most wire style welders are much smaller in amp loads. Check. you wire style welder such as a mig or tig for the amp rating on its name plate. You can now find available a wire welder that is 2. A 2. 0 amp breaker with 1. Grnd Romex installed as the garage. Just check your. name plate, checking amp rating, and if 1. A thought for future, if you build a detached garage try to keep in mind. You might. want to install your welder plug, and or a 1. GFCI protected convenience. Another thought, if you have a welder, that you may weld both. An article. in the code allows you to install two welder plugs in opposite ends of your garage. The reason you can do this. This. should be considered as a non coincidental load as referred in Article 2. Just an extra thought for you to ponder. Form of Disconnect Required for Motorized Equipment Please keep in mind that the Code requires a form of disconnect on all equipment.