Another electrical question

[Hotchef181818]

"WouId it be possible that there is an issue at the gfi causing this? My understanding is that the white, green, black hot wires are coming from there."

Now I'm confused. if your two wire is bringing in the power than your 3 wire would then be your switch legs. Therefore the black spliced jumper is wrong. Unless I'm missing something, you need to verify which is your power supply.

Lets as just disregard that comment for the time being.

[Sparky]

"WouId it be possible that there is an issue at the gfi causing this? My understanding is that the white, green, black hot wires are coming from there."

Now I'm confused. if your two wire is bringing in the power than your 3 wire would then be your switch legs. Therefore the black spliced jumper is wrong. Unless I'm missing something, you need to verify which is your power supply.

No you are missing something. Power in and 2 switch legs out.

[jslo]

But if the 2 wire is bringing the power in, why is the black from the 3 wire jumping across both switches?

[Wulf202]

But if the 2 wire is bringing the power in, why is the black from the 3 wire jumping across both switches?

Wired so that you have to turn the right switch on to power the left. Stop asking why. It's likely the previous owners "improvements"

[Hotchef181818]

Wired so that you have to turn the right switch on to power the left. Stop asking why. It's likely the previous owners "improvements"

We have already covered this part and that's not how it's wired. . Left switch is first in line, jumper is not on the switched power. The issue is the red wire heading out to the light on the top of the left switch which goes from 36v(off) to 85v(on).

Does les the fact that 85+36 = 121 point to the problem by any chance ?

[Hotchef181818]

Just did some reading about phantom voltage and it showing up in underground wiring that is run through conduit. Any sense to that? Or should I just stay the course and look for the box in the am to see if there is a clear answer ?

[newracer]

Doesn't your last picture show 120v on the switch when it is on? If so the problem is beyond the switch as Sparky already said.

[Hotchef181818]

Doesn't your last picture show 120v on the switch when it is on? If so the problem is beyond the switch as Sparky already said.

Yep, confusing stuff for me. I was looking at this pic

[Sparky]

Yep, confusing stuff for me. I was looking at this pic

Your getting weird voltages in this pic because you are not using your meter correctly.

[Great-Kazoo]

Pull all of it and start fresh. You're spending more time troubleshooting it than having it work. Been there before. Who knows how or what they did in those pipes.