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Posted by Ook on March 1, 2007, 6:54 pm
I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm :) ), and all it tells me is that
all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead circuit
and no idea where it gets fed from.
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Posted by Nate Nagel on March 1, 2007, 7:12 pm
Ook wrote:
> I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
> one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
> coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
> nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm :) ), and all it tells me is that
> all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
> in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
> either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
> walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
> feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
> behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
> wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead circuit
> and no idea where it gets fed from.
>
>
sure, unhook it from the panel, get yourself a tone generator and probe,
and knock yourself out.
nate
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Posted by RBM on March 1, 2007, 7:21 pm
First thing I would do is recheck the wires at the breakers with a test lamp
or any meter that you actually make contact with. Any tester that works off
of an electrical field, may not work accurately inside of a panel. If indeed
all breakers are good, check the outlets to see if its the hot or neutral
that's dead, and then check connections at any working outlets or switches
nearby the dead ones
"Ook" <Ook Don't send me any freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the
Don't send me any freakin' spam> wrote in message
>I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
>one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
>coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
>nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm :) ), and all it tells me is that
>all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
>in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
>either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
>walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
>feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
>behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
>wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead
>circuit and no idea where it gets fed from.
>
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Posted by Steve Barker on March 1, 2007, 8:09 pm
If it's no contact, then it's probably not accurate to use in the panel.
It'll pickup a signal from the wire next to the dead one. Get a test light
or make one. Or use an analog volt meter.
--
Steve Barker
"Ook" <Ook Don't send me any freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the
Don't send me any freakin' spam> wrote in message
>I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
>one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
>coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
>nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm :) ), and all it tells me is that
>all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
>in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
>either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
>walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
>feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
>behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
>wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead
>circuit and no idea where it gets fed from.
>
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Posted by Just Joshin on March 1, 2007, 8:15 pm
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:54:14 -0800, "Ook" <Ook Don't send me any
freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the Don't send me any freakin'
spam> wrote:
>I have lost an entire circuit - 6 dead outlets, 2 dead switches, all along
>one set of walls. All of the breakers are good, I even tested the wires
>coming out of the breakers to make sure they were hot (wife bought me a
>nifty no contact bells and whistles dvm :) ), and all it tells me is that
>all of the hot wires are really hot. There are no wires running to the area
>in the basement, and the attic is open and I don't see any wires there
>either. I'm not really sure where the circuit is fed from, and tearing out
>walls isn't an option. Any suggestions on how to find where the wire that
>feeds the circuit comes from? Are there any devices that can detect wires
>behind sheetrock, or otherwise allow you to trace wires without tearing the
>wall apart? This should not be difficult, but so far I've got a dead circuit
>and no idea where it gets fed from.
>
If you have a circuit tester, what lights did you get?
tom @ www.Consolidated-Loans.info
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