So I moved into a new house about a year ago. Built in the 40's and it currently has screw in fuse style electric box. Old, but it works. There is a detached 1 car garage that has a couple outlets and a power garage door. Everything has been working just fine, but out of nowhere i've lost all power to the garage. It looks like power is coming into the garage via 3 overhead wires from the house, i think they are maybe red and white, can't remember exactly. I have an electric tester that lights up when electricity is present and nothing happens when I touch it to any of those lines. There are no fuses or breakers in the garage so they must be in the house....right?
Well, i checked all of the fuses and none of them look like they have a broken connection. I'm pretty handy and have remodeled the whole house in plans on flipping it (this is my second flip) and listing it for sale by the end of the month. Electrical i'm pretty so-so at, just the basics mainly. I mention the remodeling because i've pulled all 8 fuses multiple times for various reasons over the past year so i know what each controls in the house and currently everything still works perfectly in the house. So that would lead me to believe that wherever the circuit is for the garage, it's not within the fuse panel the rest of the house is on.
This is where I get confused. Is that possible even? Sure there could be another small box i guess just for the garage, but I've searched the rest of the basement for another box and cann't find anything. It's a small house/basement so it's not like there is really a place for it to be hidden. It has to have a fuse somewhere right? It can't (or definitely shouldn't) be directly wired without any protection right? I just don't know, i'm really at a loss. I REALLY don't want to pay for an electrician to come out, but i'm pretty much out of ideas.
The garage lines must be fused for protection somehow right?
Could I have damaged something when unscrewing/screwing fuses? (Everything still currently works in the home so I wouldn't think so)
You guys have any guesses or things I should check?
Well, i checked all of the fuses and none of them look like they have a broken connection. I'm pretty handy and have remodeled the whole house in plans on flipping it (this is my second flip) and listing it for sale by the end of the month. Electrical i'm pretty so-so at, just the basics mainly. I mention the remodeling because i've pulled all 8 fuses multiple times for various reasons over the past year so i know what each controls in the house and currently everything still works perfectly in the house. So that would lead me to believe that wherever the circuit is for the garage, it's not within the fuse panel the rest of the house is on.
This is where I get confused. Is that possible even? Sure there could be another small box i guess just for the garage, but I've searched the rest of the basement for another box and cann't find anything. It's a small house/basement so it's not like there is really a place for it to be hidden. It has to have a fuse somewhere right? It can't (or definitely shouldn't) be directly wired without any protection right? I just don't know, i'm really at a loss. I REALLY don't want to pay for an electrician to come out, but i'm pretty much out of ideas.
The garage lines must be fused for protection somehow right?
Could I have damaged something when unscrewing/screwing fuses? (Everything still currently works in the home so I wouldn't think so)
You guys have any guesses or things I should check?