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Originally Posted by ichitaka05
How the fuck do I know that living room light switch & garage switch is connected to kitchen breaker?
I’ll next time
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you absolutely need one of the non-contact voltage detectors. you've probably shocked yourself more in those 8 switches then i have in the last 6 months. and i do it every day!
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commerci...908R/309359414
when you work on outlets, you can use these to find circuits. i've had inconsistent luck with them, as some led bulbs make the same signal on the power wires, so you'll have the 'right' breaker with a weak signal, as well as an excessively strong signal from a breaker that has nothing to do with the circuit you're trying to locate.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-To...T310/308709729
not-so-fun-fact: there are a number of electrical outfits that don't label the panels until the very end, and don't label any of their wires going into the panels, so many times, they will haphazardly label the panel at the very end of the job by semi-educated guessing.
don't trust panel markings. turn off, and check first.