direct tv came to the house we just moved into and the power went out when he was hooking up a reciever and turns out all our outlets are messed up except two. one is completely dead. one was red on his tester thing and he said that is dangerous--forgot what he said about it and all the other are open ground i guess, and the fuse keeps blowing. is there any way to fix it without an electrician??? my husband knows some electrical stuff thanks
This is not a small issue, call a qualified professional electrician to do the work quickly. Your husband may be able to find and repair the problem, but a pro can probably find the problem in an hour. Fixing it depends on what the problem is. Open grounds could be a case of old 2 wire power in the house, also the line and neutral could be reversed in a 2 wire system and that will cause the new electronic equipment to do many strange things. Since you have fuses in the system, I suspect a system installed before 1960 and it needs a complete upgrade. If you have just purchased this house, did the home inspection show the electrical panel inspection and did you then negotiate the needed upgrades?
in a typical house, several outlets are connected together serially. this means that if there is just one outlet that has a detached wire on the back of the outlet panel, it would cut power to the others in that chain. the way i figured it out was - turn off the main from the control panel then open up each outlet panel to make sure wires are connected to the screws. however if you don't feel comfortable with electrical, call the electrician. it costs about $40-$60 for a call like this.
You should get a electrician. It is a fire hazard and nothing to fool around with.
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Not a big problem first you have to find the short then get the ground wire working start by removing ALL loads on that circuit and pull the outlet covers then start with the wire disconnected at the breaker box using an ohm meter follow it as it was wired separating everything if needed to pin point short then when you got infinite reading hook back the wire and find the broken ground (sounds like a ground was hooked to a hot maybe
