I have been very busy indeed!  Other than school and all the other things I am currently trying to do, I have a broken electrical line that I need to be fixing.  I finally got my chance this weekend since all the snow has melted, and it was rather sunny.  This is just to continue my previous posts about my range/oven problem here, here, here and here.  First off, the disclaimer!  I am not responsible for any of your actions resulting from reading this web page.  What you do is your responsibility.  Leave this to professionals, or really cheap people only!  You have been warned.

This project took me two whole days!  At first, I thought it was going to take around 3 – 5 hours, boy was I wrong.  Running those wires in the conduit took especially long since I have to be underneath my mobile home crawling and sniffing on spider poo.  I did not take all the pictures, but these are the items that I found useful for this project:

• Wires
• 3/4" conduit (couplings, elbows?, glue and the works)
• Wire cutter
• Exacto knife
• Hacksaw
• Electrical tape
• Screw driver
• Brain
• Old clothes that you’re not afraid of getting ruined
• Drill
• Flashlight

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electrical wiring for the range · rewiring mobile home · running new wire through conduit

As I have mentioned last time about the wiring in this mobile home, it’s all completely aluminum.  This is not a good thing for me, but since I already own the place I will have to live with it.  The recent phenomena of my range/oven not working is due to some corosion in the aluminum wiring to the house.  I have decided to abandon the existing wiring and run one below the mobile home.  I came to this decision because of a variety of reason, but of course, the biggest reason is that it is the simplest way.

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replace eletrical wiring · wiring range oven

So, I tried what I did in my earlier post.  Please, do not do this at home and if you do, I will not take any responsibilities if anything goes wrong.  Anyway, I opened up the receptacle for my range then I went to my electrical panel to turn on the breaker.  With my girlfriend’s hair dryer in one hand and its plug in the other, I carefully touched the ends to the hot wire on the right and ground/neutral.  With the right hot wire, I was able to turn on the hair dryer and get it to work.

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electrical problems mobile home · electrical rewiring mobile home · mobile home electrical

I have spent so much time on this stupid thing and it is still not working.  Last week, I spent a few days trying to diagnose what the problem is, and I still don’t have a clue what is going on.  Although, I think I have narrowed it down to it being the electrical of the mobile home that I am living in.  I tried to get some help at doityourself.com, and still no luck yet.

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aluminum wiring · dc in AC · range stopped working

It has been a while since I’ve cooked at my mobile home with my oven/range.  I went home to western Washington for Christmas break, and after coming back to my temporary home here in Moscow, my oven/range has been broken.  At first, I thought the problem was in the range itself.  I did all sorts of tests, continuity, power, test on the power switch…everything!  I cannot find anything wrong with it, but I thought that there must be some severe rust somewhere.  The oven was old anyway, so I decided to get a new one…well, a new old one is more like it.

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dc in ac line · direct current in outlet · oven range