Sometimes the GFCI is in a completely different part of the house.

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Apr 24, 2014
9:14:40pm

Ragnar Danneskjold

Sometimes the GFCI is in a completely different part of the house.

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Ragnar Danneskjold

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Time

Any electricians on the board?

t-kuli

4/24/14 9:00pm

Check the flux capacitor. Or get a new house.

BYUCoug11

4/24/14 9:02pm

Your outlets aren't on the same circuit as your lights then.

4/24/14 9:03pm

Simple stuff first. Did you check your breakers? GFCI?

tank

4/24/14 9:03pm

Did both, nothing.

t-kuli

4/24/14 9:05pm

Do you actually have some GFCI outlets in this room?

vacougfan

4/24/14 9:06pm

None in this room.

t-kuli

4/24/14 9:08pm

And you actually flipped the breaker off and on that controls this room?

vacougfan

4/24/14 9:14pm

Yep

t-kuli

4/24/14 9:42pm

Time to move I guess then...

vacougfan

4/24/14 9:45pm

Circuit breaker.

vacougfan

4/24/14 9:04pm

It's a GFCI breaker that needs to he reset before it is turned back on.

brj8

4/24/14 9:08pm

Sounds like poltergeists.

BE-WHY-YOU

4/24/14 9:08pm

Sometimes the GFCI is in a completely different part of the house.

Ragnar Danneskjold

4/24/14 9:14pm

+1 I once had a GFCI out on the deck trip, and all the outlets in

EEcougar

4/24/14 9:30pm

Yup. And garages are notorious too.

Ragnar Danneskjold

4/24/14 10:00pm

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