Goedjn wrote:

That is true. While I don't recommend it to people that are not use to
working with electricity, a trouble shooting practice is to subistute a lamp
with for the fuse or breaker. If the circuit is suspose to be open the
light will not burn. If you put in a 100 watt bulb in a 120 volt circuit


Of course, the sensible thing to do would be
to shut off the breaker, and test continuity from the nuetral to
the hot, but that requires a hunk of equipment that costs
several thousand pennies.

Before you do that, check the voltage between the two.

You're presumably working on a troubled circuit. Don't assume shutting
off the breaker eliminates all sources of electricity.

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