![]() ![]() ![]() An open neutral is still energized.Īn open neutral comes into being when there is a break in the neutral wire responsible for connecting the panel with the line transformer. While this incomplete connection would not allow your device to work, it is certainly possible for you to get a shock. The disconnection of this wire can at times be dangerous. The purpose of this wire is to complete the electrical circuit back to the panel up to the transformer. ![]() This is what the other posters are referring to.Every 120-volt wiring circuit has one white neutral wire. Sometimes the back stab is not tight, so the downstream outlet has problems. It's done using the "back stab " connection where the bare wire is pushed (stabbed) into the back of the receptacle. The first outlet daisy chains all it's wiring to the second outlet (The keurig with the problem). Look at the other outlet (first) on the same circuit:īreaker -> first outlet -> second outlet (keurig) It has black(hot), white(neutral) and a ground wire.the two breakers are like two individual breakers (no handles together), both are 20 A In the outlet box, you would have a red wire (120 hot for one circuit), black (120 hot for the other circuit), white (neutral) and groundįrom your description, it sounds like it's not a split receptacle (has only a black = hot, white = neutral and ground) ? The two breakers don't have pin connecting the handles together? This allows people to run two big loads from the same outlet. The bottom part of the outlet is one 120V circuit and the top part of the outlet would be on the other 120V circuit. Kitchen receptacles are normally "split" so they are fed with from two 120 VAC breakers tied together (a tandem breaker or 240VAC). Thank you.The house is less than 3 yrs old and we are the first owner.We now know that the problematic outlet long with another outlet is on one breaker.So I would guess that would be the line we (the electrician) need to focus on when troubleshooting, correct? Inside the problematic outlet box, there is one ground, one hot, one netural, I guess that would indicate it is the end outlet on the line? We noticed that after the Keurig is plugged in for a while (a while could be a day or 2 hours, it is really random pattern) the power to the outlet will be lost.When we noticed this, we unplug the Keurig and plug in a kettle, same thing.No power to the outlet.sometimes, after 1hour or so, the outlet seems to get the power back and when we plug the Keurig back in, it will power on and then after certain time, the same thing happen again.įirst, we thought it is a bad outlet, so we replaced it today.and everything seems fine at first.but after about 1 hour or so, there is no power to the Keurig again.We tested with outlet tester this time when the power goes off to the outlet, it shows 'Open neutral'.after 30 mins, we tested it again.now this time, it shows 'correct wiring'.We would be calling an electrictian to take a look at this Friday, but given this is intermittent, I am not sure if the electrctian would be able to find anything. It doesn't look like I am able to figure this one out.So, we have three duplex receptacles on the kithchen counter.One of them have the Keurig coffee machine plugged into it.Everything works fine for the last 2 and a half years until recently (about 2 wks ago).
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