Hello, new to forums & electrical, but have some basic knowledge.
2+ years terrible magnetic fields and terrible mains hum in "parents" house and garage. Im 25, was on my way to moving out of the house and was then struck with a horrible sickness that i think is electrical related....but thats a whole different story, at this point taken any and all help.
100 AMP main service in house. detatched garage 60 ft away supplied by a 20 amp single pole breaker using 14-2 romex UF W-G in metallic conduit. Ths subpanel feeding this garage is an old school screw in rated at 60 amps where the overhead lights are on one fuse, outlets on another, and a freezer on another. When observing the subpanel there is a hot jumper across the set of 4 fuses from one side to another. No ground rod driven at garage and the neutrals and grounds are tied together. I have water, gas, sewer and phone (with its own seperate uffer not bonded to the main grounding system) in between both structures. At the main panel the green wire that exited from the panel to the grounding electrode has also been "snipped" somehow, but according to pop's thats why you have your grounded neutral. And directly behind the garage two feet away are the edison, phone and cable lines.
Now call me crazy... because my dad just cant seem to get enough of that in. "la la la we been hear 30 years and havent had any problems get off the drugs kid"... but the person who wired this garage back in the late 70's had one to many old milwaukee's when doing this weekend job , and isn't that copper wire from the ground bus to the electrode essential in tripping a breaker?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as where to begin with something like this.. Currently i have seperated the neutral and grounds and isolated the neutral bus as it was all bonded to the enclosure, and installed a simple light switch before this whole mess just to be on the safe side. The 20 amp breaker in the house used to trip when using too much in the garage but now the fuses just melt in the garage and I get the faint smell of burning insulation underground every now and then.