Last night I noticed the fridge in my garage was no longer working. I unplugged the fridge and plugged a cell phone charger into the same outlet and it didn’t work either, I checked the circuit breaker and nothing was tripped and I tested and reset the GFCI outlets. I used a voltage detector pen and it indicated the outlet had power. I then used a receptacle tester and it indicated hot/ground reversed. So I checked all the outlets in the string leading to the main breaker and couldn’t find any with the hot and neutral reversed. I installed a couple new outlets anyway and disconnected and then reconnected the neutral wires. Now the receptacle tester says correct wiring but the outlets still do not work. Help?
Electrical outlet is reading “correct wiring” but doesn’t work
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Best Answer
Ah, the "magic 8-ball" testers.
The legends are useless. Hot ground reverse suggests it is seeing power between hot and neutral, and neutral and ground. Nothing says the voltage is 120V. For lack of a neutral, HN and NG lamps were in series seeing 60V each. This was a lost neutral. Hot and neutral were never reversed. I hope you did not reverse them in an effort to clear this message!
A hot-neutral reversed combined with a lost neutral would also read "correct" and yet not work.