No power, no tripped fuse?

[softailgarage]

Last night while in the garage I lost power to a wall. There are (2) 2 plug in wall outlet's w/ a 4' extension strip plugged into 1, A neon clock plugged into the other. at the other outlet a 4' dual flourescent shop light plugged in, thats it. I checked the fuse box and no breakers were tripped, neither outlet is a GFI. Any idea's?

 

[justsam]

Check for a GFCI receptacle elsewhere. There may well be only one that protects a string of receptacles.

Did any event precede this outage?

 

[gungatim]

did you try turning off the breaker and re-setting it? even if it doesn't look tripped, or show that it is tripped, they can be tripped. They can also go bad. swap a breaker with that one and check.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Go into the bath room and reset the gfi. A lot of times they were put on the same gfi...

 

[wyliesdiesels]

A few questions:

Attached or detached garage?

What brand of breaker panel?

U could have a back stabbed outlet somewhere that feeds the garage circuit and the connection finally gave up the ghost!

 

[Mustang51js]

First thing I always tell customers is turn every breaker off then back on. A lot of times it's hard to tell a breaker is tripped and people just read the label,which is wrong a lot of times. Check gfi's,if still noting then it's time to start opening things up and testing

 

[bjcouche]

The "check your bathroom GFI's" is a good tip. Lots of tract homes were built and ran the garage outlets off of one of the bathroom GFI circuits in order to save $10 on installing a separate GFI in the garage. Now Most codes prohibit bathroom outlet circuits from serving other rooms with only a few exceptions.
You might check to see if you have any OUTDOOR receptacles that have a GFI breaker in them. It's possible that the circuit you are having trouble with is wired to an outdoor outlet that's the GFI outlet, then to the ones that you are having trouble with. Have you recently plugged something into an outdoor outlet? It's also possible that there is a GFI outlet somewhere in the garage that is behind some large cabinet, freezer, whatever, that tripped. Lastly, it's still possible that you have a loose connection inside one of the outlet boxes. I've found this issue in my home. The problem was found inside one of the outlets that was WORKING. Power was "daisy chained" at the outlet and the power going out was a loose connection. so keep in mind the problem could be located in an outlet box that is still working.

 

[jhelrey]

^I've seen that where the outlets are by decks etc.

If you have a subpanel powering it, you could have lost a leg.