Electricital issue DIY advice - receptacles & breaker box
Hi all, Looking for some guidance on an electrical situation we are experiencing in our home. A short while ago, I noticed I had two dead recepticals in our kitchen (there's 4 on the counter space, two were dead, two worked—so they are on different circuits). The dead two showed signs of burn/darkening in the openings but they were older. So I swapped the recepticals and they worked fine. However more recently my wife was running multiple things in the kitchen and she blew the breaker and it's the same two recepticals in the kitchen. The breaker switch is a joined two switch fuse (#7--not that the numbers matter here) but it won't flip back, when I try it makes an electrical noise, the lights seem to surge a bit and it immediately flips back off. I suspected a failed fuse and need to replace it which I have got to that yet. The other odd thing is that the only thing impacted seems to be these two recepticals. I'm not entirely sure what else is on that circuit, and haven't gone around trying absolutely everything, but am yet to find an additional dead outlet, all lights in the house work. Now this week. We have a Traeger smoker outside which has always worked no problem. But it started flipping a breaker (#12). I assumed it was the traegar as it's older and I was going to start trouble shooting it, but first I decided to try on a different circuit/receptacle so ran the extension cord inside and it worked perfectly a number of times, leading me to believe it's not the smoker. I inspected the outdoor receptacle and this one was even older and looked burnt in spots. So I swapped it with a new one and it worked for a while but now it is flipping the #12 breaker again. Different circuits so I am not sure these two things are related (however maybe it is?). I have lots of DIY experience (used to be a carpenter), but not much with electrical aside from downstream lights switches, recepticals, and fixture replacement. Nothing at the breaker box or upstream of that. Anyone have advice for me maybe before I call in and pay for an electrician to have a look? Thanks? House is in Canada, built in 1982 submitted by /u/sxdr6ijbff79 [link] [comments]
Hi all,
Looking for some guidance on an electrical situation we are experiencing in our home. A short while ago, I noticed I had two dead recepticals in our kitchen (there's 4 on the counter space, two were dead, two worked—so they are on different circuits). The dead two showed signs of burn/darkening in the openings but they were older. So I swapped the recepticals and they worked fine. However more recently my wife was running multiple things in the kitchen and she blew the breaker and it's the same two recepticals in the kitchen. The breaker switch is a joined two switch fuse (#7--not that the numbers matter here) but it won't flip back, when I try it makes an electrical noise, the lights seem to surge a bit and it immediately flips back off. I suspected a failed fuse and need to replace it which I have got to that yet. The other odd thing is that the only thing impacted seems to be these two recepticals. I'm not entirely sure what else is on that circuit, and haven't gone around trying absolutely everything, but am yet to find an additional dead outlet, all lights in the house work.
Now this week. We have a Traeger smoker outside which has always worked no problem. But it started flipping a breaker (#12). I assumed it was the traegar as it's older and I was going to start trouble shooting it, but first I decided to try on a different circuit/receptacle so ran the extension cord inside and it worked perfectly a number of times, leading me to believe it's not the smoker. I inspected the outdoor receptacle and this one was even older and looked burnt in spots. So I swapped it with a new one and it worked for a while but now it is flipping the #12 breaker again.
Different circuits so I am not sure these two things are related (however maybe it is?). I have lots of DIY experience (used to be a carpenter), but not much with electrical aside from downstream lights switches, recepticals, and fixture replacement. Nothing at the breaker box or upstream of that.
Anyone have advice for me maybe before I call in and pay for an electrician to have a look? Thanks?
House is in Canada, built in 1982
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