sabad66
06-17-2010, 07:34 PM
Question for the resident beyond electricians.
Situation:
I go to turn on my bathroom light. It turns on for half a second then turns off. I figured the lightbulb was burned out, so I changed that, no luck. Next I go to check the breaker, they are all on. Last thing I do is reset my GFI outlet, and voila, worked again, except it did the same thing and turned off after a quick second.
What I did:
I unplugged my bathroom fan to see if that was the problem, no luck with that, still trips. Next I pulled out the switch itself to see if anything looked weird, also no luck. Last thing I did was pull out the entire GFI outlet (which I'm guessing is about 15 years old by now), and it looks a little dirty, but the connections seem fine.
The weird thing is after I pulled it out and cleaned it up a bit, my light stays on for about 2 seconds now (as opposed to instantly tripping before).
Question:
What do I do? Is it possible that the GFI outlet itself is fucked up? I'm going to go buy a new one and install it to see if that helps, but besides that, is there anything else I can do?
Thanks in advance!
Situation:
I go to turn on my bathroom light. It turns on for half a second then turns off. I figured the lightbulb was burned out, so I changed that, no luck. Next I go to check the breaker, they are all on. Last thing I do is reset my GFI outlet, and voila, worked again, except it did the same thing and turned off after a quick second.
What I did:
I unplugged my bathroom fan to see if that was the problem, no luck with that, still trips. Next I pulled out the switch itself to see if anything looked weird, also no luck. Last thing I did was pull out the entire GFI outlet (which I'm guessing is about 15 years old by now), and it looks a little dirty, but the connections seem fine.
The weird thing is after I pulled it out and cleaned it up a bit, my light stays on for about 2 seconds now (as opposed to instantly tripping before).
Question:
What do I do? Is it possible that the GFI outlet itself is fucked up? I'm going to go buy a new one and install it to see if that helps, but besides that, is there anything else I can do?
Thanks in advance!