My shed is fed from a buried feeder from a 240-V, 30-A breaker in my house's main panel. The feeder breaker is a GFCI type - the 120-V receptacles in the shed are not GFCI. The shed is not connected to the house, structurally. A white conductor was run from the house main panel to the shed panel's grounding/neutral bus, but the shed doesn't have it's own grounding rod. Does this sound OK?

Today I was using an electric hedge trimmer to trim some hedges, as I do every Fall. And, as I do almost every Fall, I cut through my extension cord with with my hedge trimmer. After getting a new extension cord, I had no power. I ran to the circuit breakers and found no breaker tripped. I didn't remember this outlet (outside, by my front door) being connected to a GFCI outlet, but I started searching. I found a GFCI in my garage that [I]maybe, could be [/I]connected to the outlet in question, and its reset button was broken. I replaced this GFCI outlet and got it working. But still no power at the outlet by my front door. I searched and found another outside outlet which was a GFCI. I checked and it had power. I tested/reset it. Still no power at the outlet by my front door. I found another outside outlet with no power, but I haven't used it in probably a year, so I can't say whether it was working before my hedge trimmer incident. I found an outlet in my garage (different than the GFCI outlet I replaced, described above) which also had no power, and [I]I know[/I] it was working shortly before my hedge trimmer incident, because it has two 9v AC-to-DC transformers plugged into it, and they were both warm. I checked and rechecked my circuit breakers. Unfortunately, none of the circuit breakers is labeled such that it's obvious which would control outside outlets. Eventually, I switched off ALL of my circuit breakers, including the main power to the house, and then turned them all back on. Still no power at those three outlets. I am at a loss. So I have two outdoor outlets with no power, and one with power; the one with power is a GFCI, and it has been reset. I also have an outlet in my garage with no power; there is no apparent reason the two power-less outdoor outlets would be wired with the garage outlet, but the fact that they each have no power suggests they are wired together. Where do I go from here? If there's a short somewhere, shouldn't that trip a circuit breaker? Do I replace the outlets without power? How do I resolve this? -boster :wall: