10-13-2014, 09:42 AM
Yay for rain! Just in time to wash the roof off and help keep the dust down.
Pam, check the adjacent outlets on either side of your replaced ones if they are in the same room. If can't fix, shut circuit to those outlets off and ID all outlets on that circuit and check each one with visual. It will be obvious, from the little tab on the side melted away, or "shiny" as if painted with shellac, or look like steel screws where once were bright copper. Electricians will usually "daisy chain" outlets, so the fault would be on either side of the ones that do not work, or the wiring between. Usually the "fusible link" on the side will pop.
Also, check the wiring closely. If it looks like steel in coloring, instead of the usual copper color, that wiring section is probably bad from over amperage and would need replacement.
Edited to add part about wiring.
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Pam, check the adjacent outlets on either side of your replaced ones if they are in the same room. If can't fix, shut circuit to those outlets off and ID all outlets on that circuit and check each one with visual. It will be obvious, from the little tab on the side melted away, or "shiny" as if painted with shellac, or look like steel screws where once were bright copper. Electricians will usually "daisy chain" outlets, so the fault would be on either side of the ones that do not work, or the wiring between. Usually the "fusible link" on the side will pop.
Also, check the wiring closely. If it looks like steel in coloring, instead of the usual copper color, that wiring section is probably bad from over amperage and would need replacement.
Edited to add part about wiring.
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