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    May 26, 2012, 01:16 PM
    No Power to Plugs When circuit breaker is on
    My house was built in 1958, I have the original breaker box, and a new one. The old breaker box is now a sub-panel (all this work was done before I moved in)
    I have been living here 2 years, and no problems.

    Today the plugs in the house do not work, but all the breakers are on. I also found out that all bedroom plugs, kitchen plugs (including fridge) and some garage plugs (including garage Fridge) are all out, so I believe them to all be on the same circuit.

    Is this a bad breaker? Could it be caused by having all those plugs on one circuit?
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    May 26, 2012, 02:14 PM
    Need more detail.

    Are all the plugs in house without power?

    The plugs that are out, are they powered by the sub panel?

    Do u have power in the sub panel?

    The fridges should be on circuits by them self.

    Chuck
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    May 26, 2012, 03:11 PM
    I have been trying to map the circuits in this house but they make absolutely no sense.

    All of the old plugs (original) are powered through the sub-panel (original) I also have some new plugs in the garage that are powered by new circuits in the main (new) panel.

    All of my circuit breakers are in the on position, I have manually switched each one off then on.

    All of my plugs in the kitchen (original plugs) are out as are my bedrooms (original) but in my garage I have a fridge plugged into what I thought was a new plug because it is in conduit and not the old paper wiring, so I thought they should not be on the same circuit since the newly added electrical runs off the newly added panel.

    I agree that fridges should be on separate circuits, which I will add the near future here.

    My main question is, since they have been working fine for months, could this outage be a bad breaker, since they all say on, but the plugs do not work?

    The circuit breakers in the old panel are push-type
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    May 26, 2012, 05:54 PM
    Now Weirdness! The power came on when I switched on My A/C and went out again when I turned it off. How does that happen?
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    May 26, 2012, 07:10 PM
    Edison problem, they came and fixed their pole!
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    May 26, 2012, 09:19 PM
    That was going to be my guess, you had one side of the power feed go bad.
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