Mnalep
Member
Hello,
I was hoping to find some advice to help me trouble shoot a portion of my home's wiring circuit that has stopped working.
I have lost power to 7 lights. They are the font/back porch lights, basement light, stairway, hallway, 1 bedroom, bathroom, and the living room. I still have power to other lights, and all receptacles in the house.
The fuse looks good.
This started when I went to put a new bulb receptacle in the front porch light.
The old one stopped working, and when I looked at it the socket seemed to be disintegrating.
I bought a new socket, and attempted to wire it in. I believe what I did was accidentally cross the 2 wires to the socket when I was pushing it back in. (The wires were bare, and I should have fixed that also).
The light came on for a bit, until I pushed the socket in the lamp fixture, and twisted it. the light went out, the fuse blew.
After I put a new fuse in, the porch light, and now the other lights stopped working.
I pulled the 2 switches in front of the porch light (and living room light) thinking that perhaps they had shorted also. But the 2 switches test ok (with both a multimeter, and a continuity light).
I was thinking the next thing to do was insure there is power to the fuse in the service panel. Then pull the porch light off, and look it over, and then test for continuity at the wires leading from the switch to the porch light.
Then if that all looks good, test the remaining switches that are on the circuit that is not working for continuity.
Is this a good plan for troubleshooting this bad circuit?
If I get that far, and still have not found a problem, what should I test next?
Can I test for continuity on the wires from room to room?
Matt
I was hoping to find some advice to help me trouble shoot a portion of my home's wiring circuit that has stopped working.
I have lost power to 7 lights. They are the font/back porch lights, basement light, stairway, hallway, 1 bedroom, bathroom, and the living room. I still have power to other lights, and all receptacles in the house.
The fuse looks good.
This started when I went to put a new bulb receptacle in the front porch light.
The old one stopped working, and when I looked at it the socket seemed to be disintegrating.
I bought a new socket, and attempted to wire it in. I believe what I did was accidentally cross the 2 wires to the socket when I was pushing it back in. (The wires were bare, and I should have fixed that also).
The light came on for a bit, until I pushed the socket in the lamp fixture, and twisted it. the light went out, the fuse blew.
After I put a new fuse in, the porch light, and now the other lights stopped working.
I pulled the 2 switches in front of the porch light (and living room light) thinking that perhaps they had shorted also. But the 2 switches test ok (with both a multimeter, and a continuity light).
I was thinking the next thing to do was insure there is power to the fuse in the service panel. Then pull the porch light off, and look it over, and then test for continuity at the wires leading from the switch to the porch light.
Then if that all looks good, test the remaining switches that are on the circuit that is not working for continuity.
Is this a good plan for troubleshooting this bad circuit?
If I get that far, and still have not found a problem, what should I test next?
Can I test for continuity on the wires from room to room?
Matt