@@Beall_ It’s not uncommon for the lights to be on one circuit and the receptacles be on another circuit. Try turning the circuit breaker off one at a time to see if any other lights or receptacles stop working. If they stop working, then you know that power is getting at least that far and then you could check those lights/receptacles (being sure breaker is off) to see if loose wires are the problem and everything downstream is not getting power.
Judging by the wide angle view with a garage door behind him, I think this is a demo panel setup. Still, it is a nice, clean layout, no argument there!
I know electrical wiring (did a whole house rewiring at age 14 and didn’t get a single flaw; also ran telephone and thermostats). But, I went to college for computer sciences, tech major. Some of the most hilarious calls are for simple crap like turning off power strips, power strips unplugged, tripped or plugged into themselves! Also, they’d hook up everything; monitor, keyboard, mouse, network and so on, but no power cords for monitor or computer AND they had no idea where they were.
@@themega3023 Been there, done that, since the late '70s. I can totally sympathize with you, I've seen way too many "simple things" causing problems, that a little bit of knowledge and experience should have prevented.
Electrician here. These are actually called Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor. The work by monitoring the output voltage of the outlet and compare it with the return voltage. If the return voltage is lower than the output voltage (Mostly because of a shorted circuit) they cut of the power before the board can fry.
Don’t tell people this stuff. I love these calls. This morning dispatched at 7:30 so on the clock. Got there at 8:45 walked in “these outlets aren’t working since your installers were here” check the panel all good see a little sub underneath with a tripped mini, booya it’s gonna be a good day.
One of my favourite callouts whilst working on maintenance was someone saying their lamp wasnt working and I got there and the plug was smashed open with exposed wires everywhere, i wonder what the problem was 😂
I used to do security camera installation and service. I couldn't tell you how many times I got called to locations because someone had turned a power bar off or the power bar breaker had popped or similar things like that.
Boy I sure am glad that you told them that the manufacture of GFCI's added a end of life chip. The new GFCI's will only reset a certain amount of times.
My outside GFCI tripped. I already knew what to do when that happened. I did all of the above, and it still will not work with a 3 prong plug. It only works with a 2 prong plug. When I plug in a 3 prong plug, you can hear it click again. Did I break it? How do I fix it?! l really need this outlet to work. HELP, PLEASE?! 😭🙏🏼😭🙏🏼😭
Don't most people understand basic wiring/circuits/circuit breakers? I do all the work on our house, incl. electrical, plumbing, carpentry, appliances, cabinets, flooring, roofing, tiling, drywall - mud & tape, sand & paint, decking & supports, as well as landscaping, auto maint. but not all auto repairs.
Good point. A GFCI protects everything downstream So if you have an outlet that's dead that's not GFCI keep looking you might have one tripped. It might even be someplace like the back porch or garage
Your second solution just fixed my problem. I walked into my kitchen this morning and the coffee maker was out, all the outlets not powered. I started to stress. I restarted the breakers, nothing. It never occurred to me to find the gfci outlet to reset and wha-la! Issue fixed! Thanks!
WHEN you get a call to reset a breaker, or a GFCI recept, REPLACE IT! Either you can reset the device and make the home owner feel like a MORON, or you can replace the 'defective' device and make the owner feel better when he/she pays the bill. #CommonSenseIdeas
These comments are disgusting fr. Taking advantage of people by not telling them because it makes easy money. 🙄 You're meant to help people, not squeeze money from them.
What if the outlet is supposed to have a GFCI outlet but does not? I think the GFCI tripped in my POS old house I bought and now my bathroom outlets don't work. In the breaker box there is the breaker box for the bathroom, the one with the little white button. Does that work like a regular breaker? I want my outlets back but I'm not sure how to proceed
I've seen a non-working bathroom outlet in a townhouse condo, all breakers fine. It turned out to be a tripped GFCI outlet in the basement / garage that was feeding the bathroom outlet. 🙄🤦♂️
What if the GFCI is working but when you test it cuts the power to that section of the house? No tripped breaker? Was wondering cause my iPhone was overheating suddenly and cut the lights out to my room!
My outlets in two rooms don’t work I went out to try to turn it on by turning off the breaker and back on but the outlets are still not working what could be the issue. The strange thing is power comes on to these rooms once in a while and then it turns off often on without turning off the breaker
Was saving people money if they don’t know they need to pay somebody to do it for them and doing a just a breaker. Flip is not doing justice for them. You should amp out the circuit, check the connections, possibly replace the breaker if it happened before in the past check out the device that was plugged into it, if nothing is on that circuit you need to investigate there might be a faulty wire loose connection in one of the boxes it is supplied with worst thing is to leave a house or business after resetting a breaker just to get called back because it did it again
All these breakers look different than mine I got a flashing red light with a test button ..it popped when iwent to strip the neutral, I was going to install a simple light from Amazon. It's only grounded at the box😢 but works and light on panel went off after the installation was finished...is this a new type of breaker ???
My mom fucking plug something in to our wall and then broke it off inside the outlet and when she knocked the thing out, she didn’t turn the breaker off and something happened and now when we flip the breaker off and back on, nothing happens, there’s no power🙃💀 are we screwed
So if my breaker keeps tripping out in the garage like if I blow dry my hair and the breaker is tripping what does possibility mean and could it be costing the extra money? Can you explain part two?
You should not have referred to reseting by flipping left then right. That is opposite how they work on the right side breakers. You cannot even state away from the middle then back. I have seen both directions of beakers in different brands panels Where is the rest of that panel cover. It is dangerous to flip the breakers without it. I personally know of a panel at a hotel that blew up because a snapin breaker came out while being turned on. The person snapped it back in live and breaker on. It shorted out in the back panel and took out most of the hotels power for days and almost killed him.
You make jokes about them but they are the ones making 400k a year and don't have time to do this stuff and they can you whom makes about 75k a year. Think about it, l!
bruh my dad had my brother in law do this shit for us and now the circuit breaker in the outlet is JAMMED like this shit wont go on or off powers out to my room can tiu tell me wtf happenned
And for a tripped breaker that keeps tripping and when reset it is easily barely hardly touched goes to the middle position? Is a bad breaker need to replace?
