Just bought a new house two months ago. Porch light originally worked no problem. After changing the bulb, the fixture began to flicker. Then, after a week or so, the fixture died.
I recently rewired the switch panel inside. It used to have some old school dial timer that I’ve never seen before. That dial did have a power light above it, which also died.
Multimeter says I have a perfect 120V to the switch. When I test the wires outside, the best I get is like 80V when I test with one lead on the hot and one lead on the ground.
I did noticed that the box and old fixture had a ton of loose material inside and clearly had some moisture. Cleaned it all out, cut off corroded part of wiring, wired up a new fixture, no joy.
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Porch Light Mystery
Just bought a new house two months ago. Porch light originally worked no problem. After changing the bulb, the fixture began to flicker. Then, after a week or so, the fixture died.
I recently rewired the switch panel inside. It used to have some old school dial timer that I’ve never seen before. That dial did have a power light above it, which also died.
Multimeter says I have a perfect 120V to the switch. When I test the wires outside, the best I get is like 80V when I test with one lead on the hot and one lead on the ground.
I did noticed that the box and old fixture had a ton of loose material inside and clearly had some moisture. Cleaned it all out, cut off corroded part of wiring, wired up a new fixture, no joy.
Nuts are on tight, no problems at the switch.
What am I doing wrong?