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    #21

    Feb 8, 2014, 10:47 PM
    Okay, I did the continuity test. I did not have anything with the black wire but I did with the white wire.
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    #22

    Feb 8, 2014, 10:54 PM
    Is that a bath between the rooms?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 10:54 PM
    Yes
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    Feb 8, 2014, 10:56 PM
    Is there a GFI outlet in the bath?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 10:57 PM
    Yes... It is on a separate GFI breaker.
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    Feb 8, 2014, 10:58 PM
    Press the reset button any way.
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:01 PM
    I have checked it. In fact I went through the whole house and checked every outlet with the volt meter just to make sure everything else was working.
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    #28

    Feb 8, 2014, 11:08 PM
    You had continuity on the neutral (white). How about the ground?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:09 PM
    Yes
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    #30

    Feb 8, 2014, 11:13 PM
    Lights and everything in bath work?
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    #31

    Feb 8, 2014, 11:15 PM
    Yes, everything else works.
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:16 PM
    Any lights in closet?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:22 PM
    Yes, both closets have lights. In the bedroom in question, I made a small line on the diagram right next to the door into the room and another one next to the closet door to represent light switches. I have checked the light switch at the door and it has 6wires in it. 3 black and 3 white. I have traced those and one set in the incoming hot. One set is the out going to the light in the middle of the room and the 3rd set is the out going to the light switch to the closet. The closet light switch had 4 wires. The in coming black and white and the out going to the light in the closet.
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:32 PM
    We are getting desperate here. How many wires in the closet light fixture? What wires are connected to the closet light switch? Two blacks or a black and a white?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:38 PM
    I haven't taken the fixture down. I will have to wait till tomorrow to check because child in that room is asleep now. I will check it tomorrow but my question would be, since the light switches are on a separate breaker and when I turn that breaker off it kills the lights. So since the outlets and lights switches are on separate breakers, would they be connected? The closet light switch is a black and white wire.
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:41 PM
    Let me clarify the wires, There is a black and white wire leading into the switch and a black and white wire leading out.
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    #37

    Feb 8, 2014, 11:51 PM
    As I said we are getting desperate.

    The closet light switch is a black and white wire.
    The closet switch is a switch loop. In other words the power is taken to the light fixture box. Then a switch loop is taken to the switch. In the light fixture box you will find a hot and neutral. The neutral will be connected to the white of the fixture. The hot will be connected to the white going to the switch. The black of the switch cable will be connected to the black of the light fixture.
    That means there should only be one cable (two wires, black and white) in the switch box.
    However, you said there is two cables (four wires) in switch box.

    If black and white are connected to switch, what are other wires connected to?
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    Feb 8, 2014, 11:58 PM
    Just saw your latest post. Are two black wires connected to the switch?
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    Feb 9, 2014, 12:01 AM
    That is correct, 4 wires at the switch.
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    Feb 9, 2014, 12:02 AM
    Two black connected to switch and two white connect to switch.

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