I'm rewiring my new-to-me detached garage. Garage is from the 70s but has a newer Siemens panel (previous owners added a hot tub). The feed from my service panel is a sheathed 4 conductor cable in buried conduit, but both ground and neutral are bonded on the neutral bar. I lucked out and have the 4c feed, so I can just add ground bars and get the neutral and ground separated per code, right? Here's where I'm a bit confused. I went to the service panel to just lay eyes on the same four conduct...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I'm installing a subpanel to bring power to a garage. Answers to similar questions make it clear that a subpanel must isolate ground from neutral, so the bonding screw will be removed at the subpanel. The standard recommendation is to run /3wg cable from the main panel to the subpanel. But I've got some NM-B 8/2wg cable that I'd like to use. I believe that would allow: Either 120v service (a single pole breaker on the black wire at the main panel, white as neutral) Or else 240v service (a dou...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I live in Chicago. I try to replace my single pole light switch to a dimmer light switch. When I open the current light switch , I can't find the ground wire. How should I connect my new dimmer switch's ground wire to this metal box? Thank you very much ! Sam| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange