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    Mar 3, 2013, 12:16 PM
    Home Electrical Wiring
    I have a circuit in my basement which is out. I have tracked the problem down to one receptacle which has no power. Checked the neutral and ground are OK, hot has no power. All of the breakers appear OK. I am unable to track back to initial source for this circuit outside of the panel (I.E. another receptacle). Any advice or ideas?
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    Mar 3, 2013, 01:17 PM
    Why are you unable to track back? That is exactly where you need to look.
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    Mar 3, 2013, 01:49 PM
    Check other outlets in basement. You will have to open them to see if a wire is broken or disconnected.

    Start with outlet closest to outlet not working.

    Chuck
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    Mar 3, 2013, 11:53 PM
    A similar problem in my case turned out to be a tripped GFCI outlet that was hidden above a suspended ceiling. It took a lot of tracing to finally locate that problem but I had another clue- my outside outlets weren't working either. Are you certain that you have no other dead outlets?
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    Mar 4, 2013, 05:59 AM
    It may be a switched outlet.
    Could be a bad connection at the one of the closest outlets/switch boxes, That outlet/switch box may be live, but not hot going out.
    Since you have a good neutral, it is not a GFI Problem as GFI's remove both the Hot And Neutral when tripped.
    Is this Romex, or wiring in Conduits?
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