I’ve never done anything with electricity before, but I’m considering installing a new light fixture myself. Is this crazy, or is it really a simple thing? This is an older house and I worry not about getting electrocuted, but more about starting a fire later, or that I won’t recognize poor wiring that already exists in the house. People say it’s really easy to install light fixtures and there’s nothing to it. Is that true?

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i trenched the whole way out to the drop-pole already and need to buy the cable to put in the conduit, but am running into huge costs of the cable (500 mcm is what voltage calculators tell me). Is there another way via step-up/down transformers to reduce the cable size thats cost effective? Also where do u buy this stuff? tks
kk plz dont answer if u are going to give a ‘pay someone to do it’ answer – the drop pole is where the power company drops their line from the transformer.
the meter is on the drop pole
pappy- why do u think that i am not ‘legal’ or going to ‘do it the right way’? amazing how trained ppl are to not try to do anything themselves.
Thank you Lindner, that is the setup that i was hoping that was out there available and best fits my needs ( i live on a steep slope where overhead would have to run up my back yard, not cheap or pretty. not to mention that PG&E in california gives only 100ft of drop from their pole free then its $20 per foot for overhead.. )

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My ***** driver came into contact with the wires in the electrical box causing a spark and now my wires have no power I reset the breaker and still no power am I going to have to replace the electrical line that was burnt and if so how do I that without having to replace the whole line. The light switch in question is in the basement so I have relative easy access to the line all the way up to the light fixture HELP!

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I’m having some huge electrical problems in my house. It was built in 1993 and I really hope that there is a wiring diagram out there somewhere.

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I am a qualified electrician with a Level 3 (2391), Testing and Inspecting, certificate. Do still need to take a Part P course to carry out domestic installations? or, is the Part P just for none qualified contractors to enable them to become competant installers?

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