Posted by MarkB_MI on September 01, 2015 at 18:09:03 from (70.194.0.252):
In Reply to: House circuit failure posted by 550Doug on September 01, 2015 at 15:31:53:
First off, probe each of your circuit breakers to be sure they all have voltage to neutral on their outputs. Breakers can and do fail.
Assuming you have voltage at the breaker, go to the outlet or light switch you think is closest to the breaker panel. Pull the receptacle or switch out of the box and see if you have voltage at the actual wires. If you can't find any voltage there, there's probably another box somewhere you don't know about. (Don't forget it might be on an outside wall or some other unlikely location.)
The typical cause of this sort of failure is using the plug-in backwire feature of most receptacles, rather than taking the time to properly connect the receptacle using the side terminals. Sooner or later, the backwired connections fail and knock out all the downstream receptacles. If you find this to be the case, I would go and replace every receptacle in the house, as once one backwired receptacle fails the rest will soon follow.
Don't forget the problem can be on either hot (black) or cold (white) conductors. And when reading voltage, make sure you have a load on the circuit, such as a turned-on light.
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