Trying to fix a 15A duplex receptacle

Submitted by Fallengreekgod t3_1194qyg in DIY

I’m trying to fix a 15A duplex receptacle , I just want to replace it. It’s run with no grounding conductor and has no equipment ground. It reads open ground on the tester and it has to be in the middle of the circuit run because it has two Hots and two neutrals. The outlet directly next to it isn’t even on the same circuit when I found it on the breaker panel using the Klein circuit breaker finder. I’m getting a poor reading on the panel when I have it plugged into the outlet in question and no 15 A breaker is shutting it off. Granted there are other breakers I didn’t flip just because they are 30A , 40A , and 80A. Any suggestions would be appreciated .

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flaaaacid t1_j9kgius wrote

I've run into this before. It's probably being fed by two breakers due to a cross connect somewhere in the wiring. I'd start turning off the breakers one by one, but don't turn them right back on. Leave them off. When the power is finally cut that will give you one of the breakers feeding that line. Leave that one off and turn everything back on, then repeat the process to find the other breaker feeding it.

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Fallengreekgod OP t1_j9khbc1 wrote

Curious why would they wire it like that instead of just daisy chain off of one breaker?

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flaaaacid t1_j9khnu5 wrote

Oh it absolutely shouldn't be wired like that. There's no acceptable reason to wire one plug with two breakers. But it sounds like this is old wiring, if there's no ground, and stuff happens throughout the years.

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alohadave t1_j9lhp4m wrote

Because homeowners do crazy stupid shit that they half understand.

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bestguessautotech t1_j9kegej wrote

It might be hooked up to two breakers. Just shutoff everything if you want to replace it and don’t care about resolving the unknown breaker issue.

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Fallengreekgod OP t1_j9kg0t0 wrote

I had that thought come to me as well I just didn’t do that initially. It’s at my girlfriends parents house and they were home and didn’t want to go shutting everything else at once hahah

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