Hi folks - posting to see if anyone can suggest what may be happening with my kitchen island outlet. A few weeks ago, I began noticing this outlet sometimes wouldn't work, and other times like magic it would. I'd plug my laptop in and it was potluck whether it would charge or not. Well a couple days ago it stopped working altogether and has been dead ever since. I've tried resetting the GFI and every other GFI I could find in the kitchen, but no dice. So after reading up a little I went down to Home Depot and bought a voltage tester to confirm whether the wires in the box were live or not and lo and behold they are indeed live. Here's where I'm getting a little confused. I did the following: 1. applied the voltage tester to the outlet housing and got a positive reading - conclusion I reached based on this is the wiring inside must be loose or something along those lines 2. then I plugged in a phone charger and connected it to my phone just to double-check if it was getting juice - no juice, which reinforced my conclusion that something is up with the wiring 3. then while the phone and charger were [U]still plugged in[/U] I applied the voltage tester to the charger and got a [I]positive reading[/I] - I would have expected a negative reading (how could the charger be electrified if the phone is getting no juice??:confused:) 4. then I unplugged the charger and applied the voltage tester again just to make sure I wasn't just seeing a false positive from being too close to the outlet, but as I would expect, the charger came up negative once unplugged Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Hello, I am new to this community and glad I have found it... I have a 3 phase electrical question. I have a small cnc machine shop in my garage. I use a digital phase converter to power my machines, Phase Perfect 240V DCP20 indoor. I have not had any issues or noticed issues with power until now. I just sold an older piece of equipment and replaced it with something newer, still old but newer. :) This machine has a 230volt orange sticker on the side where the power goes into the machine. Anyway I am getting an alarm message on this CNC mill I was not getting on the other machines I have. It is an over voltage alarm. After investigating I have found that legs 1 and 2 are outputting 120-130 volts. (I am using an analog volt meter and the lines are small) Now with leg 3 the voltage is about 220-230 volts. I believe this is why I am getting the over voltage alarm. After a little reading about delta and wye 3 phase power I seem to have delta 3 phase and need wye 3 phase where all three legs are 120V. What do I need to do to get the wild 3rd leg down to 120V? Can I use a transformer to reduce the 1 wild leg or do I need to run all 3 legs through a transformer? Any tricks of the trade that can help would be great! I know enough about electricity to be dangerous and ruin the electronics. If there are website with more information that I can be pointed to, please point. I was not expecting this alarm delaying the deployment of this cnc machine. I am starting to run behind on production. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Guys!