On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:49:25 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:

On 07/23/07 03:23 pm wrote:

I have a wall in my house that is obviously overloaded as the fuse is
known to blow (maybe once every 3 months of so).

I was cleaning my stove today with a steam-type cleaner and the fuse
seemed to blow on that wall. However, when I reset the fuse, nothing
came back on. I tried switching it out with another fuse that I knew
was good, and still no luck.

It is only the outlets on that fuse that aren't working. Any ideas as
to what could have gone wrong? I'm wondering if I somehow blew a fuse
on the stove itself and that is shutting down the circuit (it's on the
plug the further from the fuse box).

I know nothing about such things, so please be gentle Unless there
is an easy fix to try, I'll be calling in an electrician.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Especially since you were using steam, I suspect that you may have a
GFCI outlet in that circuit and you tripped it. It needs to be reset.
This would be an outlet that would have two small buttons in the
center, with one being red and the other black or brown.


I've seen GFCI outlets with black and red buttons, but both buttons on
our recently purchased Cooper GFCI outlets are the same color as the
body of the device, whether black, gray, ivory or white.

Perce

I do have some GFCIs with black and red buttons. They are all older
ones. The new ones all have them the same color (and also a little
light that comes on when it trips).
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