Short circuit beside Ground Wire? My screw driver accidently touched ground wire while screw a hot...
My screw driver accidently touched ground wire while screw a hot black wire surrounded by the light switch box. The lights go out in the restroom but the circuit breaker did not trip. I turned past its sell-by date and back on adjectives breakers to make sure they are adjectives on but still not power. Should I replace the breaker related to lights?
Answers: If you were surrounded by a restroom you may haved tripped the GFCI.( ground fault circuit interuptor)
It is building code to install them within or around wet areas. The entry is, they do not have to be present contained by the room. The way most buildings are wired are contained by a sequence with one recepticle feed the next one contained by line. If nearby is a GFCI, it could be located in another nouns and the "load" cold be feeding the power into your work nouns.
Check other recepticles to see if you can find one that has a set of buttons (usually contained by between the two verticle sockets)
One should say "Test" and the other "Reset" try resetting the GFCI and that should present you power in adjectives the recepticles that follow the GFCI recepticle.
Also you might have a GFCI breaker
Look at the breaker you suspect controls your circuit, and next to the breaker box cover removed, see if it or any around it has a White "pigtail" coming from the breaker to the "Nuetral" shaft in the breaker box. If you own a GFCI breaker it should also have a "reset" button
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If surrounded by doubt, call an electrician! It could store your life!