I have a receptacle that has suddenly gone dead. The circuit breaker is fine and everything else on that circuit works. Using a two-prong tester the receptacle appears hot. Leaving the tester inserted into the receptacle, with light glowing, plugging in a working lamp into bottom receptacle the tester's lamp goes off. Remove the lamp (or turn it off) and the tester glows again. What is up with this? Thanks for any and all help. -Jeff Linder ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com)
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20 years ago