cloakingknight
New Member
I recently plugged in a dewalt drill charger and it must have shorted something. I couldnt turn on the light that is on the same circuit. Easy, just flip the breaker. Went to the panel and found that the breaker did pop. I flipped it off and on, went back expecting every to be work. Nope didnt work. I thought maybe bad outlet, switched it out, same problem. Used a non contact pen to test, and every outlet, switch beeps, but no power to power any devices.
I thought it was a gfi issue, which I do have 2 gfi on the circuit, I pressed restart on both and nothing happened. I disconnected one of the gfi, didnt bother with the other one after I hooked up my voltmeter.
Volt meter results.
Hot and neutral. Now 1.9 - 2.4.
Hot and ground .5v
Neutral and ground is .4v
Voltage at the beaker and it is reading 122v. I replaced it anyways. Now one of the outlet read 1.2v. So its not the breaker.
After installing the new circuit breaker, some outlet have no voltage between hot and neutral.
Note: all the receptacle was working before plugging in the battery charger.
Not sure why I get so low voltage.
I thought it was a gfi issue, which I do have 2 gfi on the circuit, I pressed restart on both and nothing happened. I disconnected one of the gfi, didnt bother with the other one after I hooked up my voltmeter.
Volt meter results.
Hot and neutral. Now 1.9 - 2.4.
Hot and ground .5v
Neutral and ground is .4v
Voltage at the beaker and it is reading 122v. I replaced it anyways. Now one of the outlet read 1.2v. So its not the breaker.
After installing the new circuit breaker, some outlet have no voltage between hot and neutral.
Note: all the receptacle was working before plugging in the battery charger.
Not sure why I get so low voltage.