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wrote:
OK, it's not an open neutral, it's the hot leg that's open. It doesn't sound
like an entire circuit, so again you're looking for a bad connection, but on
the hot leg. I would check all live outlets that are near the dead outlets.
You want to find an outlet with power coming in, but the hot leg of the
downstream wiring is loose

I just checked the two breakers that supply the multi-branch circuit,
and there is voltage between both hot screws and a neutral. No obvious
problems at the panel.

I will start on the live outlets close to the dead ones and see what I
find.

Thanks very much for your help.

mh

Turn off the breaker that you know supplies the "multi-branch circuit"
and then look for outlets/lights that worked before but are now NOT
working. Then open each of those checking for bad connections of any
kind. This may identify the point of a bad connection. You may find an
outlet with wires pushed in holes, or wire nuts which have become flaky.

I would also be suspicious of the new box and work done at that time,
since it was only three months ago. Perhaps did the worker create some
sort of extension on the wire feeding your bad circuit? Maybe his/her
work has a problem. --Phil

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Phil Munro Dept of Electrical & Computer Engin
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio 44555