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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Our outside post light wasn’t working (our landscape lighting was tied to the post light). I finally got around to bringing an electrician out a few weeks ago.

Electrician took the post apart, couldn’t figure out what’s wrong. Wanted to come back, rerun wiring from the box, through the ceiling, down wall, under landscaping, under sidewalk, etc - i didn’t get a price, but easily into the thousands.

electrcian told my wife they do ALL the electrical for the Villages, they know where all the wiring is, etc. Call him, they’ll come back

This week I read Village Tinker commenting that the post lights run through a GFCI outlet in the the garage - there are two outlets.
I looked today, the outlet on the back wall was hidden, and the GFCI was RED.
I reset the outlet, waited for dusk, and Wala- lights work.

I guess I earned my electrical engineering degree from University of VT.

If the so called qualified electrician had a underground electrical sensor whereby you place a device and the lampost and its send a signal where you use other device to find the break be it underground or in a wall. As a retired electrician I am amazed of the stories I read about contractors in Florida