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BFL13
Feb 09, 2019Explorer II
wnjj wrote:BFL13 wrote:
Make sure the replacement is the kind that both receptacles are live. There is a household kind that looks the same but one receptacle is only live when you use a wall switch and the other is always live you can plug things into it.
You might have one of those and the downstream receptacles are dead from being on the one that needs a switch.
Do replacements come split? I’ve always had to break the little metal connecting tabs between the top and bottom to split them.
Not sure, been a while. ? I was only suggesting this as an outside possibility. This explains about your tab to break:
http://www.electrical101.com/split-receptacles.html
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