Why my socket has power after breaker is shut off
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C breakrr (2025 Update)
Jan 26, 2019
Last reply: 8 months ago
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Does a lamp come on when you plug it in or are you just seeing voltage on a digital meter?
How much breaker socket is shut
replying to Terri Moore, Grampy wrote: Maybe you turned off the wrong breaker ??
Three possibilities:
Wrong breaker Stray voltage being read by high impedance meter Circuit is cross wired with another one
Only 3 is bad and needs fixing.
Like Fretwell suggested, plug in an incandescent lamp, hair dryer, or electric kettle that's turned on and see if it works. If it doesn't work then see if the voltage is still there when it's turned on. A high impedance meter, you could read some voltage with an open circuit, but with a load it will disappear. The other indication that's what it is would be a voltage that's less than they normal voltage, eg 20V instead of 120V
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