http://www.remodelblog.net/2012/05/electrical-receptacle-tester-code-updates/ Field Notes From A Custom Builder Tue, 21 Jul 2015 04:11:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.16 http://www.remodelblog.net/2012/05/electrical-receptacle-tester-code-updates/#comment-1783 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 05:10:08 +0000 http://remodelblog.net/?p=1543#comment-1783 Hi Dorian — Thanks for writing. Unfortunately I am not able to answer your questions. There may be several reasons for the problems you are experiencing. I recommend hiring a qualified electrician to help answer your questions. As to whether or not the replace that GFI, you could always try it. If it doesn’t help you can just return the unit you purchased. Good luck!

]]> http://www.remodelblog.net/2012/05/electrical-receptacle-tester-code-updates/#comment-1780 Sat, 18 Jul 2015 21:29:25 +0000 http://remodelblog.net/?p=1543#comment-1780 Greetings. With hope you are into answering questions from them that know not what they do…
a nonresponsive CFCI receptacle (no power, and the test/reset system has no effect) on one of my house’s circuits shows a reading of “correct” on my tester (like your yellow one, but with the test button). However, 2 normal and one more GFCI receptacles downstream of said GFCI rec give the reading “hot/reversed grnd”, and those downstream recs also cannot power even a light bulb, though I did see a tiny flash a couple times when plugged into various of the downstreamers. Said GFCI rec appears pretty old; certainly has been there since before we moved in over 10 years ago. Over a year ago I had to replace one of the downstream recs for the same outage problem {excepting said GFCI, which then was functioning fine). My suspicion is that I can fix this by replacing said GFCI receptacle. Does that sound correct to you?

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