Identify power source-UPDATE
Son bought a house that is several years old and is updating outside light fixtures. On the far side of the house is a GFCI that has no power. On a brick column near it is a light fixture that I was g...
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BFL13 wrote:
"I have thought of turning all breakers off except one and using that breaker to back feed the light fixture to see if it returned power to a breaker that has no power. Any ideas?"
Usually, you turn the branch CBs all off first and then turn them back on one at a time till the power comes back on at that location.
Or, turn off only 1 branch. If the circuit is still hot, turn that one back on and turn off another. Repeat till circuit is dead. I still like my circuit tracer. I don't have to kill power to stuff in the house trying to find the right circuit.
