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Outlet in kitchen not working rondareyes 07-22-2007
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Posted by on July 22, 2007, 5:30 pm
We have an outlet that we think we blew this afternoon plugging a
drill into it the power turned off. When we tried to reset the
breaker box everything turned back on but that outlet. We changed the
outlet. It registers that it has power, but it won't run anything.
It is like it does not have enough juice to run something. What
causes the power to decrease in an outlet to where it is there, but
now running?


Posted by Oren on July 22, 2007, 5:38 pm
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:30:09 -0700, rondareyes@gmail.com wrote:

>We have an outlet that we think we blew this afternoon plugging a
>drill into it the power turned off. When we tried to reset the
>breaker box everything turned back on but that outlet. We changed the
>outlet. It registers that it has power, but it won't run anything.
>It is like it does not have enough juice to run something. What
>causes the power to decrease in an outlet to where it is there, but
>now running?

Is this a GFCI receptacle? Mine are reset from a GFCI located in the
garage.


--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."

Posted by DerbyDad03 on July 22, 2007, 5:40 pm
On Jul 22, 5:30 pm, rondare...@gmail.com wrote:
> We have an outlet that we think we blew this afternoon plugging a
> drill into it the power turned off. When we tried to reset the
> breaker box everything turned back on but that outlet. We changed the
> outlet. It registers that it has power, but it won't run anything.
> It is like it does not have enough juice to run something. What
> causes the power to decrease in an outlet to where it is there, but
> now running?

- It registers that it has power

What does this mean?


Posted by RBM on July 22, 2007, 6:11 pm
There are any number of possibilities. Do all the other outlets in the
kitchen work now? How old is the house or at least the kitchen wiring? Do
any of the kitchen outlets have GFCI protection? It could be a tripped GFCI
or it's possible that you have an open neutral. If it's an open neutral,
you'll likely find the loose connection in an adjacent "working" outlet



> We have an outlet that we think we blew this afternoon plugging a
> drill into it the power turned off. When we tried to reset the
> breaker box everything turned back on but that outlet. We changed the
> outlet. It registers that it has power, but it won't run anything.
> It is like it does not have enough juice to run something. What
> causes the power to decrease in an outlet to where it is there, but
> now running?
>



Posted by Art on July 22, 2007, 6:19 pm
If there is a GFI and it does not test out correctly when you hit the test
and reset buttons, turn off power to that circuit and replace it. GFI's
sometimes go bad.


> We have an outlet that we think we blew this afternoon plugging a
> drill into it the power turned off. When we tried to reset the
> breaker box everything turned back on but that outlet. We changed the
> outlet. It registers that it has power, but it won't run anything.
> It is like it does not have enough juice to run something. What
> causes the power to decrease in an outlet to where it is there, but
> now running?
>



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