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A friend's house had outlets go out in the garage and in one of the bathrooms and rooms. I went into the attic and checked for junction boxes. All the cables are direct to the circuit panel with no junctions.

I opened up all of the outlets that had no power to check the wiring and found one that was burnt in the bathroom. It had no GFCI, so I replaced it with a GFCI. I also replaced the circuit breaker, because it had a delay-on reaction.

I also checked all of the outlets in the house to see if I had a hot neutral. All checked out good. I still have 120 at the circuit breaker when turned on and none of the outlets work still.

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  • Picture of the panel? How are you measuring to get "120 at the circuit breaker"?
    – manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact
    Commented Nov 19 at 19:56
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    What is a "delay on reaction"?
    – Mark
    Commented Nov 19 at 20:06
  • Possible you have a typo of "off" instead of "on". This would make sense of having 120v at the breaker. Power at the breaker and no power in the circuit means a bad connection or a broken wire, either hot or neutral or both somewhere in the circuit.
    – crip659
    Commented Nov 19 at 21:19
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    Re "delayed reaction": Challenger breakers (as indicated in your follow-up post) are all known-defective, so that's not shocking. They all need to be replaced promptly, with known-good compatible breakers such as Bryant/Eaton BR: diy.stackexchange.com/questions/188609/… diy.stackexchange.com/a/141440
    – nobody
    Commented Nov 20 at 1:28
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    That panel is a hot mess. Those old Crouse Hinds style "thin" breakers are dangerous, and should be replaced with Eaton Type A (marketed as BR) tandems and quadplex as needed. That 50A breaker is popped mostly out, possibly because of damage to the very fragile bus clip. This is a Federal Pacific tier "FixRightNow". Separate from that, Challenger breakers have a refusal-to-trip problem and should be replaced with Eaton Type A or C (marketed as BR). Type A and C are for Challenger panels.
    – Harper - Reinstate Monica
    Commented Nov 21 at 0:15

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