If they upgraded from fuse to circuit breakers, depending on the age of the 
place, it's very likely you have a wiring nightmare there. I've seen 
neutrals tied off to anything they could get and what not. The apartment I 
lived in, all our breakers worked as labeled but many shut off something in 
other apartments as well. Also, a couple of the mail building light breakers 
shut off parts of my apartment. Come to find out, they just tied in to what 
ever they could get to put 120 volts on the 2 wires at each outlet, forget 
grounding. It was being worked on when I left by the building maintenance 
person but he didn't think and I don't think he'll ever straighten the whole 
mess out without tearing every inch of wire out of the building and that 
will never happen. The house I grew up in was at least as bad, you never 
know what was going to happen doing electrical work. When my wife and I were 
house shopping before she lost her old job, we saw some strange things in 
houses we looked at too. My favorite was the house that needed a ton of 
work, was listed uninhabitable, the meters were pulled but it didn't need a 
ton of work. Anyway, the meters were pulled, no power. Someone bumped a 
light switch at the back of the house by mistake and the lights in the 
kitchen came on. We don't know how or why, the meter was clearly gone, no 
mysterious wires form the house like it was bypassed or anything yet th ose 
lights and only those lights worked.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: Arc Fault circuit breakers


> Hi Colin, I forgot to mention in my original post about this
> topic that before changing out the breakers, I got up my dipole
> antenna and put in a grounding rod just for the antenna and rig
> thinking that might divert any stray RF from the house wiring and
> thus the breaker panel, but such was not the case.  The prroblem
> still persisted but maybe not quite as bad as with the alpha I.
> antenna.  Seemed strange to me that the Arc Fault Breakers were
> on circuits for ceiling lights and some wall outlets as well.
> Our house isn't new but was renovated prior to our buying it.
> They re-did much of the plumbing and electrical because the place
> had evidently been plundered before the people fixed it up and
> resold the place.  Jim WA6EKS