Kevin54
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I need some ideas. 
I'm desperate for some ideas really and don't have a clue
When I built my garage, I had some help running the electric. The person that helped me was a great helper, but I found out after things were done that some of my outlets were backstabbed. I never paid close attention other than when we flipped the breaker everything worked. I found out that some were backstabbed when I removed the wall between the two bays. When I removed the wall, I corrected the backstabbed outlets and wrapped the wire around the screws.
Back earlier I had one of the oil filled radiators (for heat) hooked up when I was out in the garage working on the computer. I plugged a vacuum in and popped the breaker. I unhooked the heater, reset the breaker, but I have three outlets that don't work.
In putting the corrugated tin up on the walls, I had to extend a couple of outlets up higher on the wall and corrected the backstabbed outlets. I still have three dead outlets. I am trying to remember how the electric was ran, but when I removed the wall, I had to reroute a couple of outlets. Everything works but these three and I spent almost all day yesterday and half of today trying to figure where I could have a dead wire.
So this brings up my question.......Is there an easy way to back trace wiring to where the bad connection would originate from? In using a Fluke Meter, I can check ground to ground, hot to hot, neutral to neutral, but the leads are only so long. All of my outlets are on one circuit on one wall of my garage, lights on another circuit, when I took the wall out, I connected the circuits up and I know which breaker they come off of.
I guess what I need to know is how can I check, say and outlet, when they are 15' apart? My problem is that I don't know where the dead outlets are being fed from, if this makes any sense at all
Momma and I swapped out outlets yesterday for new outlets making sure that everything had a good connection. Every outlet in the garage works other than the three. One is under my desk and it is the end of a circuit because it only has the hot, neutral, and ground. This is on the garage side of a wall that the other side is a closet. I checked the outlets in the closet with a Sperry outlet tester and all is good.
So I guess what I am wondering, is there something made that when the breakers are off, will backfeed some sort of current into a line, that I can check wires at another area seeing that a Fluke Meter doesn't have enough length in the leads.
And again, to most, this might not make sense with the way I am trying to explain it. I know what I envision in my head, but to put it to print may not make sense to others. Anyways.....if someone has some sort of idea what I said and has some sort of an idea what I can do to trace the wires, I will be VERY grateful.
And to let ones know, the wife and I swapped out 7 outlets yesterday that were backstabbed. Well, first off, we took out the backstabs and put the wire around the screw connectors. When that didn't solve the problem, I swapped out the outlets completely, to no avail.
I forgot to mention, when the breaker popped and I unplugged the heater, a traffic light that I had plugged into the circuit came back on when I reset the breaker in the panel box. I decided to plug the heater in again to the wall to see if it would pop the breaker again. It did, but after I reset the breaker one more time is when I found the three dead outlets. That's when the search began and I found the backstabbed outlets. I'm almost positive how the wire is ran in the wall for the three outlets that are dead, but what I don't know is where the power source is originating from to the first outlet in the circuit.
And a word of advice from me to others......When you run your electric to your place, whether a garage, or in the house, make sure you take pictures showing how things are ran. Back when I built my garage, we didn't have a Digital Camera, so I never took pictures. Lord what I wouldn't give to have some pics of the wiring circuitry right now
I'm desperate for some ideas really and don't have a clue When I built my garage, I had some help running the electric. The person that helped me was a great helper, but I found out after things were done that some of my outlets were backstabbed. I never paid close attention other than when we flipped the breaker everything worked. I found out that some were backstabbed when I removed the wall between the two bays. When I removed the wall, I corrected the backstabbed outlets and wrapped the wire around the screws.
Back earlier I had one of the oil filled radiators (for heat) hooked up when I was out in the garage working on the computer. I plugged a vacuum in and popped the breaker. I unhooked the heater, reset the breaker, but I have three outlets that don't work.
In putting the corrugated tin up on the walls, I had to extend a couple of outlets up higher on the wall and corrected the backstabbed outlets. I still have three dead outlets. I am trying to remember how the electric was ran, but when I removed the wall, I had to reroute a couple of outlets. Everything works but these three and I spent almost all day yesterday and half of today trying to figure where I could have a dead wire.
So this brings up my question.......Is there an easy way to back trace wiring to where the bad connection would originate from? In using a Fluke Meter, I can check ground to ground, hot to hot, neutral to neutral, but the leads are only so long. All of my outlets are on one circuit on one wall of my garage, lights on another circuit, when I took the wall out, I connected the circuits up and I know which breaker they come off of.
I guess what I need to know is how can I check, say and outlet, when they are 15' apart? My problem is that I don't know where the dead outlets are being fed from, if this makes any sense at all
Momma and I swapped out outlets yesterday for new outlets making sure that everything had a good connection. Every outlet in the garage works other than the three. One is under my desk and it is the end of a circuit because it only has the hot, neutral, and ground. This is on the garage side of a wall that the other side is a closet. I checked the outlets in the closet with a Sperry outlet tester and all is good.
So I guess what I am wondering, is there something made that when the breakers are off, will backfeed some sort of current into a line, that I can check wires at another area seeing that a Fluke Meter doesn't have enough length in the leads.
And again, to most, this might not make sense with the way I am trying to explain it. I know what I envision in my head, but to put it to print may not make sense to others. Anyways.....if someone has some sort of idea what I said and has some sort of an idea what I can do to trace the wires, I will be VERY grateful.
And to let ones know, the wife and I swapped out 7 outlets yesterday that were backstabbed. Well, first off, we took out the backstabs and put the wire around the screw connectors. When that didn't solve the problem, I swapped out the outlets completely, to no avail.
I forgot to mention, when the breaker popped and I unplugged the heater, a traffic light that I had plugged into the circuit came back on when I reset the breaker in the panel box. I decided to plug the heater in again to the wall to see if it would pop the breaker again. It did, but after I reset the breaker one more time is when I found the three dead outlets. That's when the search began and I found the backstabbed outlets. I'm almost positive how the wire is ran in the wall for the three outlets that are dead, but what I don't know is where the power source is originating from to the first outlet in the circuit.
And a word of advice from me to others......When you run your electric to your place, whether a garage, or in the house, make sure you take pictures showing how things are ran. Back when I built my garage, we didn't have a Digital Camera, so I never took pictures. Lord what I wouldn't give to have some pics of the wiring circuitry right now
