Home electrical question.

[BTR]

2 outdoor wall sockets stopped working. Hit all the breakers on the fuse box to no avail. They don’t have a reset button I can see. Everything else inside is working fine. What am I missing?

 

[Skinny Tire AH]

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[fmo24]

GFI somewhere
Edit: maybe porch or patio?

 

[Rayson1971]

Get a plug tester and plug it in to a plug. It will show you if there's an open neutral or open hot or no power at all. Check maybe they're controlled by gfi in the garage. If none of that you may have to open the receptacles to see if the connections are bad.

 

[WhatExit?]

Check yer GFIs (GFCI) outlets - they’re protecting those outdoor outlets. Click the reset buttons

 

[rrrr]

Almost certainly a tripped GFCI somewhere upstream of those two receptacles. Look in the garage, perhaps behind a freezer, or a bathroom counter near the exterior wall where the receptacles are located.

 

[BTR]

Found it. The bathroom is right near the outlets and has a reset button that was tripped. Reset it and the outdoor plugs work again. Thanks all.

 

[lantz]

Almost certainly a tripped GFCI somewhere upstream of those two receptacles. Look in the garage, perhaps behind a freezer, or a bathroom counter near the exterior wall where the receptacles are located.

All of these replies. At our river house, the two outside receptacles in the carport are on the GFCI circuit in our back bathroom. At home my one back patio receptacle is on the GFCI circuit in our master bath.

 

[WhatExit?]

It’s a good idea to see if you can figure out what tripped the GFI to turn off the outlets

 

[BTR]

It’s a good idea to see if you can figure out what tripped the GFI to turn off the outlets

Me. Filling the pond. Didn’t want to stir up sediment so was running water onto the turtle basking rock and it splashed onto to filter plugs.

 

[mjc]

Me. Filling the pond. Didn’t want to stir up sediment so was running water onto the turtle basking rock and it splashed onto to filter plugs.

Well now you know your gfi works correctly.

 

[DirtyWhiteDog]

Just for future knowledge, 80%ish of the time, post 1975ish builds. Outside outlets on a site built home controlled from GFCI outlet in garage. Mobile home from bathroom outlet.