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I do not mean to get off topic here but since I see heart of a hunter in an electrician maybe you could help answer this question or anyone else out there.
A few days ago my dad asked me if I noticed the microwave was off. The GFCI tripped that it was plugged into so he tripped it and it worked. Last night I was using it and it worked fine. I went to use it again and it was dead. This time I could not reset it. Come to find out another outlet in the kitchen was not working but there was still another one that worked. the two that are not working are on separate breakers. All the lights work fine just these two outlets.
It is a pretty old house and the wiring is probably dated. hopefully my dad can get it going today may try and replace the outlets first.
Thanks for any tips
Jamen
Industrial Electricians are in pretty high demand a lot of places and it pays competitively. Even more so if your trouble shooting skills and PLC experience is good. In management meetings we constantly discuss the growing shortages of industrial trades.
Electricians pulling wire in houses and swapping out light fixture rely pretty heavily on speed to be profitable but is a very different from industrial stuff.
I can help with this. All outlets in kitchen's must be GFCI but if you look at your kitchen they are not all individual GFCI outlets. You can wire them in series. Therefore the first one has the trip unit but all the downstream receptacles are protected by the GFCI outlet. If you cant get it to reset then you wont get the other ones to work.
Few things it could be. Bad GFCI outlet. Therefore you have to replace the outlet which shouldn't be that hard.
The other thing is it could be the ground fault is still there and the outlet wont let you reset. Therefore you have a short to ground somewhere. Unplug everything connected to that circuit and try to reset. If it resets something plugged in is faulty. If it doesn't reset go back to option 1.