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VTHokie01

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Have you had any new deck/patio/landscape lights installed recently?


If the GFCI outlet is not the culprit, check to see if you have any low voltage/LED transformers in-line with your deck lighting. One of those could have failed or if you had additional lighting installed recently, maybe the wiring/outlets were altered on the transformer. You'll typically find the transformer underneath the outside edge of your deck, or at least in an accessible area on the underside of your deck.

I had a similar issue when we had a new patio installed with patio lights and the contractor used one of my existing transformers to run the patio lights and failed to plug in the other transformer for the deck lighting.

(In response to this post by FfxStationHokie)

Posted: 07/14/2017 at 12:47PM


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  Need some help for electrical problem (inside) -- FfxStationHokie 07/14/2017 11:14AM
  Which is upstream, the outlet or the lights? -- Baltimore Hokie 07/14/2017 8:09PM
  Well, that's a shocker ** -- VTimHokie85 07/14/2017 3:07PM
  Mice ** -- Newt 07/14/2017 2:03PM
  We had this happen, outside GFI outlet had gone bad -- WestyHokie 07/14/2017 12:53PM
  Have you had any new deck/patio/landscape lights installed recently? -- VTHokie01 07/14/2017 12:47PM
  Check the rain barrel ** -- bigbadbird 07/14/2017 12:40PM
  Try using the CAT 5 wire ** -- 48zip 07/14/2017 12:38PM
  I thought the lounge standard was 120v RMS over Coax not Cat 5e -- jmanatVT 07/14/2017 1:34PM
  Oh yeah. My bad. It was coax. ** -- 48zip 07/14/2017 1:58PM
  It sounds like a breaker or you've connected your wire to the tail end -- thankbud 07/14/2017 12:16PM
  The GFCI itself could be bad. Swap it from a bathroom somewhere and -- vt_mughal 07/14/2017 12:05PM
  Not sure what these fools below are talking about -- VT Pops 07/14/2017 11:57AM
  You need some 220.... -- Freddyburg Hokie 07/14/2017 11:56AM
  ...you also going to the gym or gun club ? ** -- chumley 07/14/2017 3:31PM
  Sounds like the gfci outlet is bad, replace the outlet (after cutting off -- fordham 07/14/2017 11:50AM
  Check the line in on the GFCI to see if it is hot. I recommend a meter vs -- No Clue 07/14/2017 11:28AM
  Queue BW to page vt90 ... but perhaps the GFCI outlet is faulty. -- vt90 07/14/2017 11:21AM

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