Blew my breaker, plug grounded?

Moabfighter

Moabfighter

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getogrow said:
what breaker tripped ?
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When I turned my main back on it of course killed the breaker that hasn’t been working properly. But it also seems to have killed my oven breaker and I had to put it back to on. My ole lady may have flipped it off prior I don’t know. Everything working now. ‘Cept bedroom number three.......
 
getogrow

getogrow

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Moabfighter said:
When I turned my main back on it of course killed the breaker that hasn’t been working properly. But it also seems to have killed my oven breaker and I had to put it back to on. My ole lady may have flipped it off prior I don’t know. Everything working now. ‘Cept bedroom number three.......
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How about the outlet by the main door you said you hooked up to your outside stuff? does it work ?
 
getogrow

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Guys i didnt mean those fluke testers are low quality , i meant they are not meant for beginners. They throw false readings all the time , you kinda have to know what your doing to use them correctly. Multumeters dont lie. much more safe.
 
Moabfighter

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getogrow said:
so just the outlet by your main door and all of the bedroom , correct ?
Were ruling out all the other circuits in the house....
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Actually that seems to be a fair assessment. I automatically assumed the grow room because it’s flat dead. But this may be the only dead plug that is NOT in the grow room.
 
BigBadAbe

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Could he have overloaded the outlet by backdoor and cooked it with the outdoor items?
The grow room outlet may be a downfeed from the back outlet/ loose wires
 
getogrow

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If NOTHING has changed except that outside stuff you hooked up then i would start by pulling the outlet out by the main door. The problem is more then likely in one of the outlets on that circuit. Turn the power off and pull that one out and ill leave ya alone for the day but thats a VERY good start....
 
CubanB

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Its probably something simple. My brother had a breaker doing the same thing. I just pulled the outlet covers for everything on the circuit until i found one that had some furniture in front of the plug pushing on it enough to to where it made the hot screw on the side of the outlet touch the metal box causing a short. Should be pretty obvious when you find the problem. You should see black marks where it was arcing.
 
Moabfighter

Moabfighter

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getogrow said:
If NOTHING has changed except that outside stuff you hooked up then i would start by pulling the outlet out by the main door. The problem is more then likely in one of the outlets on that circuit. Turn the power off and pull that one out and ill leave ya alone for the day but thats a VERY good start....
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So just remove that outlet, or better yet go ahead and replace it? Then try to turn breaker back on? You good man I appreciate all the help. Sorry we not found it....
 
getogrow

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BigBadAbe said:
Could he have overloaded the outlet by backdoor and cooked it with the outdoor items?
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Yes. Thats probably it..... not 100% but its ALWAYS the last thing that was messed with. Crazy thing is it probably was not the grow or the outside shit that caused it initially .....it was probably a shitty connection that didnt show itself till he did that.
 
Moabfighter

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Literally only thing from day to day norm that changed was those cords outside getting rained on heavy for the first time. Timer had been on that cycle for months. Before that it was on 18/6 7 days a week for a year ish. Thinking it’s that pumpkin plug. But again dude said outlet was good. But who knows
 
getogrow

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Moabfighter said:
So just remove that outlet, or better yet go ahead and replace it? Then try to turn breaker back on? You good man I appreciate all the help. Sorry we not found it....
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Well when you pull out the problem outlet , i think your going to SEE the problem before getting it all the way out.... there should be burnt marks an such .....
 
getogrow

getogrow

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I dont like that dude said it was good without it being on ? you cant test a dead outlet.....
I am 100% a wire is touching something it shouldnt.....just not sure where....
 
getogrow

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CubanB said:
Its probably something simple. My brother had a breaker doing the same thing. I just pulled the outlet covers for everything on the circuit until i found one that had some furniture in front of the plug pushing on it enough to to where it made the hot screw on the side of the outlet touch the metal box causing a short. Should be pretty obvious when you find the problem. You should see black marks where it was arcing.
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i agree, this is not always the case but most of the time it is....
 
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