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  • Whaler
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2002
    • 3281
    • Sequim, WA, USA.
    • DW746
    #1

    Electrical Problem

    About an hour ago I lost all power in the garage/shop. I have gone through all of the main breakers and can't find a problem and no other area of the house is affected. Nothing was on int the shop except the lights when it happened so there could not have been an overload. Any suggestions?

    I learned something new. being a manufactured home there has to be a master disconnect on the outside. It was in a panel right beside the meter on the side of the garage along with the breakers for the shop.
    Last edited by Whaler; 07-19-2009, 04:00 PM.
    Dick

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    • Daryl
      Senior Member
      • May 2004
      • 831
      • .
      #2
      How many circuits in your shop?
      Do you have GFI's?
      Sometimes the old man passed out and left the am radio on so I got to hear the oldie songs and current event kind of things

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        • LCHIEN
          Super Moderator
          • Dec 2002
          • 22055
          • Katy, TX, USA.
          • BT3000 vintage 1999
          #3
          likely a hidden GFI as Daryl suggested. Might be somewhere in the house. The front porch outlet is controlled by the GFI in the powder room of all places, in my house.
          Loring in Katy, TX USA
          If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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            • Hellrazor
              Veteran Member
              • Dec 2003
              • 2091
              • Abyss, PA
              • Ridgid R4512
              #4
              Garages usually have one GFCI outlet controlling all of the rest. Another place to check - do you have a GFCI outlet on an outside wall in the garage area?

              Does your garage have a sub-panel?

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                • Dutchman46
                  Forum Newbie
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 56
                  • Holland Michigan
                  • BT3000
                  #5
                  Check this out

                  One other thing, Have you checked your ground? I have had problems from that as well!

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                    • tfischer
                      Veteran Member
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 2349
                      • Plymouth (Minneapolis), MN, USA.
                      • BT3100
                      #6
                      As noted by others, it could be a GFCI, especially if the whole garage is on one circuit. Same thing happened to me in my old house before I added more circuits--- I went crazy trying to trace the problem, from the garage, through the dining room, to the bathroom, to the tripped GFCI... ARGH! Took me about 45 minutes to hook everything back up after I found that so I could verify that was the real problem... Shortly thereafter I added new circuits in the garage with their own GFCI's...

                      Back in the early 80's, it was evidently cheaper to run a long wire (the bathroom was on the other end of the house from the garage) than install a 2nd GFCI.

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                        • crokett
                          The Full Monte
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 10627
                          • Mebane, NC, USA.
                          • Ryobi BT3000
                          #7
                          Like the others, my guess is GFCI. In my house the guest bath, master bath and a few of the kitchen outlets are on a GFCI in the master bath. Those outlets quit working once and it took a while to figure that out.
                          David

                          The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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                            • Whaler
                              Veteran Member
                              • Dec 2002
                              • 3281
                              • Sequim, WA, USA.
                              • DW746
                              #8
                              I have some weird GFI connections and that was my thought but I have checked all that I can find. Tomorrow I'll dig some more possibly i missed one.
                              Dick

                              http://www.picasaweb.google.com/rgpete2/

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                                • eccentrictinkerer
                                  Senior Member
                                  • Aug 2007
                                  • 669
                                  • Minneapolis, MN
                                  • BT-3000, 21829
                                  #9
                                  Check the GFI's in your bathrooms.

                                  I've run into garage power outages due to upstairs bathroom GFI's at three of my customer's homes.

                                  All the homes were built in the 70's and 80's.
                                  You might think I haven't contributed much to the world, but a large number
                                  of the warning labels on tools can be traced back to things I've done...

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