Two different breakers (ckt 7 and ckt 26) feed the same lights???
So my mom's house has no power to the lights and receptacle in one bathroom. I think cool maybe it's just a GFCI needs to be reset.. nope didn't work.
Check the panel, ckt 26 is tripped. Ok I turn it off and back on, then both ckt 7 and 26 trip this time. Weird. I turn them both off and turn 7 back on, all the lights in the living room turn back on. Ok I turn 7 off and then 26 back on and it holds, and now the lights in the living room are back on?
So both breakers turn lights on in the living room, but neither give power to the bathroom. And if both are on, they both trip.
I can see ckt 7 leaves the top of panel and ckt 26 goes out the bottom. Both have their own neutral on the neutral bar.
I took apart the GFCI in the bathroom and with both circuits off I read 120 volts from one cables hot to another cables neutral when the 3 cables in that box were all separate. Got no voltage when I checked from hot to neutral within a given cable. What the heck.
Is the only answer to this that somewhere these wires cross and some rodent's dead body is completing some new circuit between them?