I have an outdoor outlet that stopped working (had a light on that showed it was tripped and wouldn't reset).
I bought a new one to replace it and hooked it up, but the new one also trips just after it is reset.
There's nothing plugged in and nothing downstream, so I'm not sure how this is possible. The hot (black) is receiving power and it clicks in on reset.
Can something upstream cause the outlet to trip?
Update: Here's the problem:
Best Answer
It's dead, Jim
You have kept the tape on the LOAD terminals and nothing is plugged into it. That's a good a test as you can do.
Really the only thing left to do is test whether the power is good. I would swap in a plain receptacle and plug in an appliance and see if the appliance works. That will be a more definitive test than you can get from that probe.