How do you know which circuit breakers are out? Electricity went out in kitchen. Lights work, but outlets do not.. What should I do? 1/2 the outlets in the house don't work anymore. Is this self fixable or do I need an electrician? We had just bought a little conventional oven for the kitchen so we can bake chicken. Today I had some chicken baking in the little oven and when I came back to check up on it, it was off. I noticed that our rice cooker wasn't powered on either, come to find out, none of the appliances that required power outlets were not working. Including the refridgerator!!! In our other rooms, everything works fine, the outlets are working. It's just the ones in the kitchen, does anyone know what happened?? And what should I do to fix this? Is it something with the circuit breaker? We turned it off and turned it back on but its still not working. I reset and tested all the outlets, but nothing is working.In the electrical panel, how would you know which breaker is out?
2006-10-15 11:45:42 · 5 answers · asked by preshusQD 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Circuit breakers SHOULD be listed on the inside of the breaker box door. Almost never are! Most breakers will not go all the way over to "off" when they blow, they only go over a little way out of line with the rest of them. To reset, you have to turn the culprit off, then snap it all the way over to "on". You can safely verify if a breaker is the problem with a very inexpensive circuit tester. (Small neon bulb with two wires about 6 or 8 inches long.) Take out the screws from the panel that covers the area around the breakers, and remove the panel. DONT TOUCH anything inside there with your bare hand! Carefully touch one wire of the tester to the screw that holds the wire in the breaker, or to the wire itself if any bare wire is showing. (Copper colored, not the black, red, or white insulation) Touch the other test lead to the bar with a bunch of screws and white and bare wires in it.
If the light lights, breaker is OK. If it doesn't light, try reseting it as above, if that doesn't work, call the landlord, or an electrician.
2006-10-15 12:02:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know how you must feel. I need to ask you a couple of questions though. 1. Did the circuit just blow? were you able to trip the breaker and the power go back on for the appliances?
If everything was working fine BEFORE you connected the conventional oven you will probable need to put this on a dedicated circuit (you will need someone that does electrical work or an electrician)
As for the outlets not working check the breaker (they may also be tied into the same circuit as the oven) as I said before if they were all working fine before the oven was installed the dedicated circuit for the oven should correct the probalem.
If this does not correct the problem you actually had 2 problems to begin with. Also if you can't tell by looking at the circuits in the panel box reset all of them.
2006-10-15 13:12:07 · answer #2 · answered by Twila N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, I think you over loaded your kitchen circuits with all that fine cooking.You can check your circuit bker`s the following way. go to bker box. If bker`s have small windows next to switch handle, the window will have red in it if brker is tripped(off). on the one`s with red,move switch handle(left)then(right)to put bker back on.Make sure you pull all appliance plugs out of outlets first before turning bker`s on.If you have no red windows on bker`s NOTE as you look at in box the bker switch handles will be lined up in row from top to bottom.Look for the one`s that are OUT of line, reset them like red window one`s Just told you about ok You should be alright after resetting bker`s PUT plugs back in kitchen that you had in before you put big appliances on.If you what to cook ok but not all at once. Good Luck
ROSCO
2006-10-15 12:24:11 · answer #3 · answered by rosco 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might have tripped the GFCI protected outlets that are at counter level. These outlets are the ones with the two buttons built into them. Check it out, just a suggestion.
2006-10-15 14:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Darrin V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go thru all breaker and turn them off and back on, any tripped breaker will be in the middle position. if you already reset all the GFI outlets and resetting all breakers you may have a burnt neutral, call an electrician.
2006-10-16 14:31:39 · answer #5 · answered by Crissy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are drawing to much electricity. Run another power line to your Kitchen............
2006-10-15 11:51:30 · answer #6 · answered by pikeruss 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋