Came home the other day to find no power in garage.Garage has seperate fuse box with power supplied from the house's breaker box. There is a 240v for a compressor and about 4 other lines for lights in the garage and all the fuses seem ok. One plug in garage still powers a outdoor halogen light but the 240 and everything else in garage is dead. Checking the breaker box inside, I notice all my 240's are dead. Stove, dryer and the double 30's going to the garage. There are also 2 or 3, 15 amp breakers that can't be reset on both sides of the box. Everything else seems to be ok. Tried switching a known good breaker with a offending one and noticed a small trickle of power to a night light for about a minute then nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Try turning your main breaker off, then back on. If this doesn't cure the problem, I suggest calling in an electrician. However, if you have some experiance and a voltmeter, you could measure the voltage on the line (meter ) side of the main breaker. If it is not 230 to 240 volts, your problem is upstream & will require an electrician and/or the power company to make repairs.
If you get 240 on the line side and you don't get 240 on any of your 2 pole breakers, your main breaker has gone bad.
Tom
If you get 240 on the line side and you don't get 240 on any of your 2 pole breakers, your main breaker has gone bad.
Tom
Thanks for the reply Tom. I've tried main and its branches, but I think it's on my end somewhere. Going to do some wire following tommorow.
