On Jun 10, 4:42*pm, "RBM" wrote:
"RB" wrote in message

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DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jun 10, 3:07 pm, RB wrote:
I have a partially-dead GFI circuit:

This circuit powers two electrical outlet in the back bedrom and a light
in a bathroom, as well as a wall outlet in that bathroom which has a GFI
receptacle. I needed to move that receptacle, so I uncouple the wiring,
ran it *to the new location, then re-connected the receptacle. In the
process two of the wires shorted together briefly, but did not trip the
breaker.
* *Now all looks good, the GFI LED is lit. The bathroom light switch
works.
But the *wall sockets in that bedroom no longer have power.

Is there some peculiarity about GFI that would explain that?

In the process two of the wires shorted together briefly

Help us understand this situation:

You have an existing circuit with wires that were running through a
wall. You disconnected the wires from the GFCI, pulled them out of the
wall, fished them to the new location and reconnected them to the
GFCI...while they were live?

No, I left out some things for brevity.

1 - turned CB off
2 - disconnected cable from receptacle
3 - cut the ends of the wires, staggered cuts, insulated.
4 - wrapped with duct tape
5 - fed into new wall space.
6 - turned CB on
7 - dinner break
8 - Drilled hole in new wall.
9 - fished wire out with coathanger
10- grabbed wire with pliers to pull the slack
11 - SPARK! *Concerned spouse appears to accept confession.
12 - turned off CB.
13 - Stripped and connected wires. White wite to terminal marked "WHITE"
on receptacle, black to "HOT", ground to ground screw.
14 - Pushed the wired receptacle back into the box and screwed it down.
Ditto faceplate. *(currnetly not wall-mounted, construction in progress)
15 - turned CB back on. LED glows, lights work, all is good.
16 - Back to bedroom/office, PCs won't power back up. The two common
non-GFI outlets on the same circuit are dead. One is switched, the other
not.

Your description is only of one cable. Unless you have other cables involved
that weren't reconnected, this outlet relocation has nothing to do with the
other outlets not working.

As RBM hinted at, unless the wires to the outlets in the bedroom were
attached to either the Load side of the GFCI receptacle (thus
protected by the GFCI) or to the same Line screws as the input of the
GFCI (therefore not protected) then just moving the GFCI should not
have impacted the bedroom outlets in any way.

Either there is something else that you left out (for brevity) or
something else was disturbed that you didn't notice or this is just a
weird coincidence and unrelated to the relocation of the GFCI.