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[radlilim]

And 2010 keeps dishing it out. Now the outlets in the bedroom (i.e. the entire top floor) of our house aren't working. The breaker wasn't tripped, and just to be sure we replaced the breaker with a band new one. Nothing. So now I need to get an electrician in to fix it. Probably one of the outlets on the circuit is blown, but I can't figure that out.

Yesterday was also full of small little accidents, leading to my foul mood.

Who/what did I piss off?

This afternoon I'll be having lunch with mom and grandma, hopefully that will go smoothly.

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[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

If you think you have a bad outlet, you can save yourself a lot of time, and possibly some money (depending on how you feel about later replacing the outlet yourself) by getting a circuit tester (sometimes called a circuit voltage tester). They're not all that expensive, especially compared to an electrician, and all you do is stick them into each outlet on every receptacle and look and see if there's any power being output. That'll point out your dead one right there, and if the problem is something else, you'll know that too.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

The one I would probably get is the "Sperry 3-Wire Circuit Analyzer Voltage Tester" - it's less than $4.

[jkivela.livejournal.com]

I think we got a $10 one from Home Depot.

[jkivela.livejournal.com]

We did that and they are all dead, which I think means that the first one in the circuit is the one that is dead. Unfortunately I don't know where the circuit starts. :(

Next step is to take off the outlet covers and see if there are any loose wires. Also, I can get behind some of them in the crawl spaces to check for chewed wires, it might be mice or squirrels.