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Posted by DaGoodest on October 9, 2006, 1:44 pm
I have one room in my entire house that has lost power. The overhead
lights do not work and neither do any of the outlets. I have reset all of
the circuit breakers in the box by cycling the off then back on. Of
course, this did not work. Further, I removed the cover panel to ge to
the exposed wires and I used a test light on all of the wired to ensure
that I had power going to then. all of them gave me a light, so I know
that I have power going to each circuit. All of the other power sources
in the house are fine, except for this one particular room. I have rest
all GFI outlets in the house.
One problem that I have is that I am unable to determine which breaker is
for this room. The panel is NOT clearly listed for this particular
bedroom.
Any suggestions from here?
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Posted by Stubby on October 9, 2006, 2:15 pm
Some one disconnected the feed to the room in question. You'll have to
trace it back from the room, perhaps using one of the buzzer devices
that you pick up on a close by radio.
DaGoodest wrote:
> I have one room in my entire house that has lost power. The overhead
> lights do not work and neither do any of the outlets. I have reset all of
> the circuit breakers in the box by cycling the off then back on. Of
> course, this did not work. Further, I removed the cover panel to ge to
> the exposed wires and I used a test light on all of the wired to ensure
> that I had power going to then. all of them gave me a light, so I know
> that I have power going to each circuit. All of the other power sources
> in the house are fine, except for this one particular room. I have rest
> all GFI outlets in the house.
>
> One problem that I have is that I am unable to determine which breaker is
> for this room. The panel is NOT clearly listed for this particular
> bedroom.
>
> Any suggestions from here?
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Posted by on October 9, 2006, 2:49 pm
Sounds more like a bad connection someplace than a bad breaker.
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Posted by dpb on October 9, 2006, 3:08 pm
DaGoodest wrote:
> I have one room in my entire house that has lost power. The overhead
> lights do not work and neither do any of the outlets. I have reset all of
> the circuit breakers in the box by cycling the off then back on. Of
> course, this did not work. Further, I removed the cover panel to ge to
> the exposed wires and I used a test light on all of the wired to ensure
> that I had power going to then. all of them gave me a light, so I know
> that I have power going to each circuit. All of the other power sources
> in the house are fine, except for this one particular room. I have rest
> all GFI outlets in the house.
>
> One problem that I have is that I am unable to determine which breaker is
> for this room. The panel is NOT clearly listed for this particular
> bedroom.
>
> Any suggestions from here?
If you have power at each pair of wires leaving each breaker, then
obviously it's not the breaker at fault. As somebody else suggested,
you've lost either feed or neutral at some branch point that feeds that
particular room (although I'd say it's possible someone disconnected
it, the description you provide indicates it "just happened"). Start
by removing each cover plate and checking for loose neutral or hot
wires. Alternatively, it's possible a feed through an outlet may have
failed because the outlet itself has failed. Look for any signs of
overheating, etc. Of particular place of suspicion are any places that
used the rear entry "stab-lock" stripped wire connections instead of
the side screw terminals. Of course, be careful of live circuits or
turn breakers off. Eventually, you should find a
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Posted by Tom The Great on October 9, 2006, 5:32 pm
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:44:26 -0500, "DaGoodest"
>I have one room in my entire house that has lost power. The overhead
>lights do not work and neither do any of the outlets. I have reset all of
>the circuit breakers in the box by cycling the off then back on. Of
>course, this did not work. Further, I removed the cover panel to ge to
>the exposed wires and I used a test light on all of the wired to ensure
>that I had power going to then. all of them gave me a light, so I know
>that I have power going to each circuit. All of the other power sources
>in the house are fine, except for this one particular room. I have rest
>all GFI outlets in the house.
>
>One problem that I have is that I am unable to determine which breaker is
>for this room. The panel is NOT clearly listed for this particular
>bedroom.
>
>Any suggestions from here?
imho:
1. Who ever did work on your house, NEVER let them touch another damn
thing. Not clearly labeled, freaking boobs. :)
2. Don't do any work on electrical systems, especially energized
ones, without being properly trained.
3. Evaluate what is worth more, the few bucks you save doing the work
yourself, or getting an electrician in to find the problem(which
sounds simple) and labeling your panel correctly.
Now if this was ME:
I would start labeling the panel. I would use either a circuit
tracer, or a loud radio, and cycle breakers, and label. Soon I would
find the last breaker to the 'dead' bedroom.
Then I would check for proper landing of all wires, "you might have a
floating neutral".
If all panel wiring is ok, then I would try and 'guess' the place
where the home run goes to and check wire connections, hopefully not
box by box. This should be the end, and then I will fix wires as
needed.
Now this isn't a how-to, just enlightening you to what you might get
when you get an electrician to fix the problem.
hth,
tom
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