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power out on outlets, need help!

~Ethan~

~Ethan~

Dec 3, 2008
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Abilene, TX
#1
I know next to nothing when it comes to electricity so bear with me.
The other day my mom was blowdrying her hair when suddenly the power stoped working to that outlet. We soon discovered that the outlets to the adjacent room stopped working as well. What might be the problem?
 
#4
~Ethan~ said:
I know next to nothing when it comes to electricity so bear with me.
The other day my mom was blowdrying her hair when suddenly the power stoped working to that outlet. We soon discovered that the outlets to the adjacent room stopped working as well. What might be the problem?
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breaker....or fuse check the panel....or maybe in your case have someone else check
 
#6
its a circuit breaker. somewhere in your place there is a gray metal box attached to the wall. it has two rows of black switches in it. they should all be on (pointed away from center), except one. the one that runs electricity to the rooms that don't have any power now. that one is probly pointing in the middle. you click off then back on. the box is in the basement if you have one. or a utility closet.

edit: yeah, you get the picture
 
#9
We just had that at our house today. At first I thought the ground fault interrupt (GFI) had popped, but it wouldn't reset, so I went out to the breaker box and, sure enough, the breaker had opened. I turned it off, then on, and we were back in business. However, I cautioned my daughter not to run the space heater and the hair dryer at the same time.
 
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#12
Munjibunga said:
We just had that at our house today. At first I thought the ground fault interrupt (GFI) had popped, but it wouldn't reset, so I went out to the breaker box and, sure enough, the breaker had opened. I turned it off, then on, and we were back in business. However, I cautioned my daughter not to run the space heater and the hair dryer at the same time.
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Are you running a 40 service or something? A hair dryer and space heater running together shouldn't throw a breaker.

lowsound
 
#15
iamlowsound said:
Are you running a 40 service or something? A hair dryer and space heater running together shouldn't throw a breaker.

lowsound
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if they are on the same circuit they will. that's probably in excess of 20 amps with just those two appliances - a 1500 watt space heater (common size) is going to draw in the neighborhood of 13 amps, and that's about the power draw of a strong hairdryer on high heat as well. even if that circuit was specifically designed for high-current appliances (i.e. a 20 amp kitchen breaker), both of those on the same circuit would most definitely blow it, especially if there's some lights on the same circuit too.

what i want to know is why is someone running a space heater and a blow dryer at the same time (i'm presuming in the same room)? seems sorta reduncant.
 
#16
john turner said:
if they are on the same circuit they will. that's probably in excess of 20 amps with just those two appliances - a 1500 watt space heater (common size) is going to draw in the neighborhood of 13 amps, and that's about the power draw of a strong hairdryer on high heat as well. even if that circuit was specifically designed for high-current appliances (i.e. a 20 amp kitchen breaker), both of those on the same circuit would most definitely blow it, especially if there's some lights on the same circuit too.

what i want to know is why is someone running a space heater and a blow dryer at the same time (i'm presuming in the same room)? seems sorta reduncant.
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trying to dry a whole lot of stains from the sheets?
 
#18
~Ethan~ said:
I know next to nothing when it comes to electricity so bear with me.
The other day my mom was blowdrying her hair when suddenly the power stoped working to that outlet. We soon discovered that the outlets to the adjacent room stopped working as well. What might be the problem?
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Was she blowdrying her hair in the bathroom? This may be a case of
a tripped Ground Fault Isolator. Sometimes one GFI services multiple outlets.
 

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