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The circuit came back on again after sitting off for 2 days. So I finally had time to go back and check and test every receptacle. I noticed I removed what I thought was the first receptacle and left only bare wires unhooked to anything. The other outlets still had power. So I've been looking at...

Yea I'm beginning to think I'm missing something somewhere. I've looked everywhere prior to that socket closest to the panel and all the sockets that are before it are on completely different circuits as they work. Which I just found the breaker for them. By bare wire I meant I tested it with...

So I retested that receptacle (closest to panel) this time with the receptacle installed and with just bare wires. I got nothing from it on either reading. What I did notice was when I touched the ground with the VOM that is the only wire giving out anything which was the .8 to 1v reading. When...

Ok so the past two days I have been working alot so I haven't had time to do anything until this morning. So I went to go check the wire for voltage again and when I cut the breaker back on everything worked fine. So I plugged a lamp in to check for power and it worked. My question is why after...

I only know that because I have tested and marked each outlet that wasnt already labeled in my breaker panel so I'll know what each controls

Well one switch on it powers the lights to the rooms with those receptacles and wires I've been testing and 1 bathroom. All the lights from it work perfectly. So I'm assuming its operable.

I bought a new breaker when i bought that new afci/gfci the other day. I put it in before i wired in the new receptacle. Could it still be bad though?

So I checked the line wires going into the receptacle and got no voltage at all. Then I checked the receptacle before that one and it has a reading of less than 2 volts. My VOM was set to AC of course so I don't know what comes next.

On the circuit before the af/gf receptacle is normally her tv printer and cable box and roku which were all plugged into a surge protector. When i visually inspected the receptacle it had no signs of any arcing. The first the original receptacle died before we replaced it with the afci gfci...

I've tried plugging in a lamp and it won't even go in the receptacle due to them being tamper resistant the one that isn't tamper resistant has no power. The circuit breaker is 15amp. The AC I have no clue she threw it out and is considering getting a new one.

I do have a VOM.

Ok so I started early this morning and changed all receptacles to industrial grade to no avail. Still no power to that circuit. When those afci/gfci receptacles won't reset do I need to replace them every time or are they still usable? I mean not on this circuit of course but in places like my...

I realized where I was going wrong I was looking at that one receptacle that wouldn't reset as the first receptacle on the circuit. It's not the first one is behind her TV stand so I'm going to check that one as soon as I go over their when daylight breaks. So hopefully the problem is I just...

There was a box in the wall in all of them. I can tell when I took them apart that someone who previously owned this trailer had done their own electrical work because all of them had fairly new electrical boxes in them. I did notice that this circuit has two receptacles that are far away from...

I installed a commercial/industrial grade heavy duty standard receptacle where the ac was. So I should install it in the place of the af/gf receptacle? It shouldn't have burned out that fast I had just replaced it with a new afi/gfi outlet about 20 mins prior to turning the circuit back on to...

So would it be better to just wire in a non gfci recep.? Sorry im barely understanding this im fairly new at this im used to working on cars and computers lol

How it's wired it has 4 wires and a ground wire. The black wires are on the hot wire side of course with the wire going toward the other sockets is on the load screw and the other hot wire is attached to the line screw and the same with the neutral wires. I hooked it up the way the old socket...

Ok so my mother owns a 1992 mobile home that she bought back in 2015. We don't really know the repair history of the electrical parts of the trailer. Well a few months ago the socket in her bedroom started smoking and tripped the circuit breaker (as expected). I suspect the sockets hadn't been...

Hi everyone, my name is Steve from New Bern, NC. I am fairly new to the housing repair scene as I've never had to do it before but I figured it would be nice to learn so if I ever own a home one day.