MamaBear 2015
- Nov 21, 2015
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Hi people. I just joined the forums here. I'm a former electronics R&D technician of 27 years - ASEET ( Associate in Science in Electronics Engineering Technology, from 1969 ), who hasn't worked in that field since the mid-90's when most of it went overseas.
We bought this UBC ( universal building codes ) modular house about 10 years ago and the "builder" installed it on a foundation on the lot we bought. He said he would do it in 6 months and took 18, while we paid a construction loan, ripped us off for tens of thousands of dollars in the process, AND did his own plumbing and electrical, apparently paying licensed people for their signatures for city inspection purposes. ( we hope he rots in hell )
The house came from the factory in two halves that were joined together on the foundation - the front and back halves. He hooked up the AC to everything.
Anyway, since moving in, the AC has been weird between the front and back halves. A doorbell that had the transformer plugged in, in the laundry room in the back, wouldn't work right because the front door was in the front half.
And we've tried using some Westinghouse power line intercoms but they only work if plugged into the respective half where the other one is, not across the halves.
So this is kind of a mystery, but I'm suspecting that he may have run a common ground and fed each half with a separate phase of AC from a 120VAC transformer ( from the power line transformer out on the pole? ).
I just don't know how to deal with this, without great expense.
We really want our intercoms to work, especially since our area has had some bank robbers that the police have been doing a manhunt for, and they've been doing home invasions, and my sister's room is at the opposite end of this 80 foot long house, from mine.
Any ideas on how we can solve this quickly and inexpensively?
My first thought would be to put a large enough high voltage non-polarized capacitor between the hot lines of each half of the house, but the house has insulation in the crawl space down there and plastic sheeting over it, and I'm 68 years old and not good at crawling around in such an environment.
Thanks.
We bought this UBC ( universal building codes ) modular house about 10 years ago and the "builder" installed it on a foundation on the lot we bought. He said he would do it in 6 months and took 18, while we paid a construction loan, ripped us off for tens of thousands of dollars in the process, AND did his own plumbing and electrical, apparently paying licensed people for their signatures for city inspection purposes. ( we hope he rots in hell )
The house came from the factory in two halves that were joined together on the foundation - the front and back halves. He hooked up the AC to everything.
Anyway, since moving in, the AC has been weird between the front and back halves. A doorbell that had the transformer plugged in, in the laundry room in the back, wouldn't work right because the front door was in the front half.
And we've tried using some Westinghouse power line intercoms but they only work if plugged into the respective half where the other one is, not across the halves.
So this is kind of a mystery, but I'm suspecting that he may have run a common ground and fed each half with a separate phase of AC from a 120VAC transformer ( from the power line transformer out on the pole? ).
I just don't know how to deal with this, without great expense.
We really want our intercoms to work, especially since our area has had some bank robbers that the police have been doing a manhunt for, and they've been doing home invasions, and my sister's room is at the opposite end of this 80 foot long house, from mine.
Any ideas on how we can solve this quickly and inexpensively?
My first thought would be to put a large enough high voltage non-polarized capacitor between the hot lines of each half of the house, but the house has insulation in the crawl space down there and plastic sheeting over it, and I'm 68 years old and not good at crawling around in such an environment.
Thanks.
