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For the past few years one circuit in the house suddenly goes out and the circuit breaker is not tripped. After a few hours or sometimes a day the power returns. When the power is on a test of the circuit shows proper wiring. When the circuit is out, the tester show that the hot and ground are reversed(?). This has occurred about 5 times over the past three years. Any ideas.
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what you need to do is trace out the circuit from the panelbox to wherever it goes. if it goes to a junction box then splits, you'll need to trace out the splits. when the wires go into a wall it gets complicated. a cable locator made by the ideal company helps out good. it puts a tone on the wire which is picked up by a hand held receiver. those plug in circuit testers are nice but not foolproof. they'll tell you if a hot-neutral is reversed or when a ground is there or not. only thing I can say is start somewhere, remove outlets and check - an electrician would have to do the same thing. -
Hot/Ground reversed is also displayed when you have an open neutral with a downstream load on. Check the neutral connections at the receptacles.Comment
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