[morpheus]

5 outlets in my garage stopped working for no apparent reason. I was not doing anything with wiring or switches. I did have a shop light on that was plugged into one of the 5 outlets. No circuit breaker tripped or any other panel problem. No tripped GFIs. What could be the problem

 

[Arrow3030]

Sometimes breakers don't look tripped but are. Try re setting them.

 

[morpheus]

I tried that several different times. Also reset all 110 volt breakers in case the outlets were on a circuit that was not marked. I wonder if one of the outlets could have gone bad causing the other 4 to stop working.

 

[de-nagorg]

Do you have a DVM?

Start testing the circuit at it's origination point to isolate where to start looking for any anomalies .


ED

 

[jbfan]

Are you sure that a gfci is not tripped?

 

[gregzoll]

Start pulling stuff away from the walls and check all GFCI outlets. Also go walk outside and check GFCI outlets. Sometimes you will find a Kitchen, Bath, Crawlspace, Basement GFCI controlling the Garage, depending on who did the wiring.

 

[morpheus]

Thanks for your help. I did find a tripped GFI. It was hidden behind some wall to ceiling shelves. Problem solved.

 

[gregzoll]

Thanks for your help. I did find a tripped GFI. It was hidden behind some wall to ceiling shelves. Problem solved.

Hopefully you cut a hole for that or moved the shelves. Since they are movable, you may want to put a blank in and just put a GFCI breaker in, if you are limited where that shelving unit can go. Otherwise cutting a hole in the back will give you access to that outlet.