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- which connection is used for household electrical outlets
Hello Forum,
Some of my electrical outlets (3) in the kitchen stopped working (one of them is a GFCI outlet). Reading online, I found out that outlets are generally connect in a daisy-chain fashion and if one goes back they all stop working. See the figure below showing a daisy chain connection:
The connection in the figure above looks like a parallel connection (which in general assures that if a component breaks all other keep working).
But if the first device (green) in the figure break, then I believe the other two will also stop working. So this daisy chain connection is not a true parallel neither a series connection. It is more like a parallel connection but if one device breaks some of the other ones also stop functioning...
Is that correct? If so, I am trying to identify which of the three outlets is actually broken and replace it..
Thanks!
Some of my electrical outlets (3) in the kitchen stopped working (one of them is a GFCI outlet). Reading online, I found out that outlets are generally connect in a daisy-chain fashion and if one goes back they all stop working. See the figure below showing a daisy chain connection:
The connection in the figure above looks like a parallel connection (which in general assures that if a component breaks all other keep working).
But if the first device (green) in the figure break, then I believe the other two will also stop working. So this daisy chain connection is not a true parallel neither a series connection. It is more like a parallel connection but if one device breaks some of the other ones also stop functioning...
Is that correct? If so, I am trying to identify which of the three outlets is actually broken and replace it..
Thanks!