bad circuit breaker?

[gimpy]

Just got my brand new bt3100 set up and running on Sunday. I did turn it on to check it a time or two. It did run fine, I think. Even took the wife out last night (Monday) to show her my new baby. I turned it on for her for just a second or two, then turned it off. Seemed to work fine. All in all, I probably only had it turned on for about a minute total. Over the two days, I turned it on/off maybe 5-6 times.

I went out this evening to do some stuff with it and--no power. Nothing. I did some checking and no power on that side of my garage. I plugged in a drill and it would not work on that side of the garage. I did have electricity to the other side of the garage.

It is a new garage (built first of the year). It has a sub panel in it coming from the main panel on the house. I had a friend/co-worker do the install (he does electrical on the side). He put 3 breakers in the garage sub panel. A 15 amp for the lights and 2 20 amps for the north and south sides of the garage. Apparently the one side (north) of the garage has no power while the south side still does.

I checked the breaker switches in both panels (sub and main) and they were not tripped nor did anything to restore the power.
Any suggestions--bad breaker or what?

So sorry for the long post. (I did try contacting the installer but no answer on his phone, yet).

thx, Frank

[gonesailing]

Could be a bad breaker, or it could be a lose wire. The lose wire could be at the breaker (if none of the outlets work) or going into the first outlet. Should not be hard to trace, but if you don't know what you are doing, get your friend to do it.

Mike

[lkazista]

Frank,

Although none of the breakers seem to have been tripped, try restting them anyway. Take each breaker one at a time, and click it off, then back on. Depending on what type of panel and breaker you have in place, they sometimes will look and seem OK, even though they ahve tripped.

Good Luck,

Lee

[sd]

Look for a GFCI recep. If a GFCI trips it will shut off everything downstream from it.

[Hellrazor]

Look for a GFCI outlet or breaker. Garages are required to have the outlets on a GFCI protected circuit(s).

[gimpy]

I got it going. It's working just fine now. Thx for all the feedback. Hellrazor, that's what it was. Once I found it, I popped it and it started working. I really feel like a you-know-what, not finding/thinking about that in the first place.
Again, Thx,
Frank

[dlminehart]

GFCI's can be fussy . . . as they have to be, in detecting minute current differences between hot and neutral. Anyway, I found that my garage GFCI circuit was tripped every time I used my garage door opener. Seems that there's a capacitor or some other component in my opener that caused a brief current differential to appear in the circuit. I had to rewire the garage so the opener wasn't plugged into the GFCI circuit.