View Single Post
  #6   Report Post  
Posted to alt.home.repair
Terry Terry is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 663
Default How do I know if a circuit breaker is bad in my house?

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


Make sure all the neutral connections are tight in the electrical
panel first.

Next, I would take a flashlight and look at the room from overhead. If
you can see a cable going all the way back to the panel from that area
there is a good chance that you can guess what devise it is going to.
The light fixture in the center of the room is a good guess.

You can turn off all the 15/20 amp single pole breakers or be very
safe and turn off the panel long enough to take the device out of the
wall/ceiling. Turn the breakers back on. If it is hot, you can go
from there. If it is not, then maybe, you have rats.



If it is hot there then you can the you have a