Dead receptacles
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Dead receptacles
It has been two years without power to 10 outlets that are found on my second and third floor. I've had four electricians who can't find the problem. One night at 1:30 in the morning, the power suddenly went out to these ten outlets. I know the exact time as my backup battery surge bars started beeping at the same time. Electricians checked every outlet, including the working ones and couldn't find the problem. The breaker box is only a year old and all breakers have checked out fine. The only thing the electricians wouldn't look at, is a GFI plug on my roof deck. They tell me it's way to far from the electrical panel to be the culprit. But the GFI switch is broken and jammed, it can't be reset. Could that be the problem, or are the electricians right when they say it's too far to be the problem. Though my house was built upside down (the water heater is on the third floor) and there is also a roof top AC/Heating unit that draws power. Please help! I'm getting tired of having no electricity in my house.
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Do you have a multi-meter ? Do you know how to use it ?
Here is a test you can try. Verify that your outlets are still dead.
Set your meter to Rx1 scale. Check from ground pin on a dead outlet to the neutral pin. If you see continuity then the GFI is not at fault.
The GFI opens the neutral and hot on a fault.....therefore if continuity is there it's not the GFI.
Here is a test you can try. Verify that your outlets are still dead.
Set your meter to Rx1 scale. Check from ground pin on a dead outlet to the neutral pin. If you see continuity then the GFI is not at fault.
The GFI opens the neutral and hot on a fault.....therefore if continuity is there it's not the GFI.
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Nope, not locking it up but creating a new thread instead - much better visibility to the issue this way.
Are these receptacles all on the same circuit or multiple circuits? My thought is to map the circuit(s) and look at the last good one and first bad on, that's usually where the problem is.
Edit: Just noticed you did post again so I merged the threads and deleted the duplicate question.
Are these receptacles all on the same circuit or multiple circuits? My thought is to map the circuit(s) and look at the last good one and first bad on, that's usually where the problem is.
Edit: Just noticed you did post again so I merged the threads and deleted the duplicate question.
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are the electricians right when they say it's too far to be the problem.
#7
This is interesting:
Are you saying that your main distribution panel has been replaced since the power to these outlets failed, and that even that did not fix this problem?
and, welcome to the forums!
It has been two years without power to 10 outlets that are found on my second and third floor.
The breaker box is only a year old and all breakers have checked out fine.
and, welcome to the forums!