Electrical Problem in the house!
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Government Teat-sucker
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Electrical Problem in the house!
Yesterday I had DirectTV installed (yay, Me!!), and suddenly the garage door opener stopped working. It took me a few minutes to realize that it was the outlet, not the unit that was malfuntioning. This morning, my wife called me and informed me that the outlets in the bathrooms were inoperative. I was at the house the enitre time the install was being done, and, although they had to get into the attic to drop the cables, they had no need to move or disturb any wiring up there. What might be causing tis? There's no breakers tripped. The house is 26 years old.
Super Duty
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Are you sure the breakers aren't tripped? The reason I ask is I had the same symptom and after looking at the box the breaker was not tripped (at least I thought). I decided to just try switching the breaker in question off and on for the hell of it and wouldn't you know it... it was tripped, but it hadn't moved enough to tell by just looking at it. Strange but it solved my problem.
If that's not your case, check for power going into and coming out of the breaker. The breaker itself might be bad. If that checks good then there's probably an issue in the wiring circuit somewhere. Those problems can be a nightmare to trace unless you have a schematic of the house wiring, which most people don't.
If that's not your case, check for power going into and coming out of the breaker. The breaker itself might be bad. If that checks good then there's probably an issue in the wiring circuit somewhere. Those problems can be a nightmare to trace unless you have a schematic of the house wiring, which most people don't.
Fleet Owner
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In addition to what Dave said, check your GFI outlets. It could be that your garage door opener power is on the load side of one of your bathroom GFI's. Just press the reset buttons on all your GFI's.
Fleet Owner
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In 26 years there is a good chance that a bath has been upgraded, which will almost always include adding GFI's. There might be just one, with other outlets or circuits daisy chained off of the "load" teriminal.
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Stu, also check to see if they drove any screws or stapled any of the cables up out of the way anywhere. It may be that they ran a screw or staple through some of your wiring. I've seen it happen before and it caused my garage door opener to stop working.
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OK, figured it out. The install guys may have bumped a wire or something, but I discovered some wires loose in a junction box. I got some better connectors at HD and put it all back together. No worries now! Thanks for the help.
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I wonder if the connections weren't done right to begin with. I assume that you're talking about twist locks.
Should take quite a bit to upset them. Especially since there are strain reliefs on the wires going into the box -- unless they're covered by conduit.
Good job finding it.
hj
Should take quite a bit to upset them. Especially since there are strain reliefs on the wires going into the box -- unless they're covered by conduit.
Good job finding it.
hj
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