Timeline for Are grounded receptacles with open grounds causing my electrical problems?
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| Mar 5, 2015 at 22:42 | comment | added | Kevin K H Chan | another update: upon fixing the melted outlet, I recovered the circuit for test and it looks like the lights don't trip the breaker anymore. But the open ground issue still exist. I will get a wire tracer and figure it out. | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 5:52 | comment | added | Kevin K H Chan | Update: I successfully changed the melted outlet with a new one, after I checked the integrity of the wires, of course. Still reporting open ground. I'm going to open the one outlet in the room that still has ground and see what I get. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 4:58 | comment | added | Kevin K H Chan | After searching all the outlets, I found a melted outlet: the plastic shell was melted, the hot and neutral are partially melted but still attached to the outlet, the ground (surprisingly) looked visually unharmed. There is enough for me to strip and reattach. I also discovered an unused outlet that the renovators installed, it was broken as the receptacles had a malformed hot slot (cheap asses). Didn't bother me much but now that I know... Would that be my culprit? The ground was still intact though. | |
| Mar 1, 2015 at 20:15 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Yes, many (even most) junctions are in boxes associated with other devices, rather than a junction box serving no other purpose. If done in compliance with code, all junctions are supposed to be accessible (ie, you should not have to rip the walls open to find them.) If the outlets in the room are not getting power (which appears to be what you said) AND more than one light trips the circuit, something else must also be using a great deal of power. | |
| Mar 1, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Kevin K H Chan | Another question: I noticed that the circuit also includes 6 potlights and 1 corridor light (excluding the light and its outlets in the affected room), is it possible that the junction box be in one of them and that they're the ones affecting the circuit? I ask this because any more than one light turned simultaneously will trip the circuit. | |
| Mar 1, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | Kevin K H Chan | Where might these junction boxes be located (or where they're commonly located at). The affected room is in a finished basement. | |
| Mar 1, 2015 at 4:44 | history | answered | Ecnerwal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |