Hi there,
I have an older home and am trying to install a heater on a timer in my bathroom. I found a circuit that had very little load, in the spare room (few unused receptacles) I removed the receptacle, pigtailed the wires (black to black, white to white) in the box, and did not reconnect the receptacle right away, as I've learned not to assume everything will work ;-) I pulled through another Romex and fed it into the bathroom. Wired the timer (load line and neutral) and now the heater doesn't work (never did). When I went back to recheck my work (starting at the original receptacle location) I noticed that when I test power black to ground I get nothing, white to ground nothing, across the two (Black to white) I'm getting 118 volts or so. Is this normal? Also, the receptacle feeds the switch to the light in the room (3 romex in the box) and this continues to work. I'm kind of stumped here....Anyway to verify my work? troubleshooting tips?
I have an older home and am trying to install a heater on a timer in my bathroom. I found a circuit that had very little load, in the spare room (few unused receptacles) I removed the receptacle, pigtailed the wires (black to black, white to white) in the box, and did not reconnect the receptacle right away, as I've learned not to assume everything will work ;-) I pulled through another Romex and fed it into the bathroom. Wired the timer (load line and neutral) and now the heater doesn't work (never did). When I went back to recheck my work (starting at the original receptacle location) I noticed that when I test power black to ground I get nothing, white to ground nothing, across the two (Black to white) I'm getting 118 volts or so. Is this normal? Also, the receptacle feeds the switch to the light in the room (3 romex in the box) and this continues to work. I'm kind of stumped here....Anyway to verify my work? troubleshooting tips?