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Default How do I know if a circuit breaker is bad in my house?

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:44:26 -0500, "DaGoodest"
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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