u/_cfar21

First time poster and mediocre electrician

Hello all,

I’ve recently bought a new house and am working out some electrical gremlins. Our range randomly stopped working so I started chasing down the problem. Long story short I got the range hood working again but now the new GFCI I installed is not working properly. The hood is piggybacked off this outlet as seen in the wiring pictures and you can see the light from the hood is now on indicating there is power running through the outlet. However if I plug in a toaster or fan or something to the outlet itself it doesn’t work.

I must admit, the wiring is super confusing to me with the three different knob and tubes running into and out of the box and especially with certain ones wound around another.

If someone could explain why two neutrals are wound together and two blacks are wound together that would be great and also explain why the GFCI is not working now. Pressing test and reset do nothing.

Edit: thanks for the help, I’ve got it figured out. Also, picture number two is what I found, not what I did to fix the other issue lol 😂 I probably should’ve clarified that.

Edit: thanks for the help you guys and gals. I got it working. Simply my line and load were crossed. I have one black line wire and two black load wires. Ditto for the neutrals. Receptacle tester is now showing correct wiring.

First time poster and mediocre electrician

Hello all,

I’ve recently bought a new house and am working out some electrical gremlins. Our range randomly stopped working so I started chasing down the problem. Long story short I got the range hood working again but now the new GFCI I installed is not working properly. The hood is piggybacked off this outlet as seen in the wiring pictures and you can see the light from the hood is now on indicating there is power running through the outlet. However if I plug in a toaster or fan or something to the outlet itself it doesn’t work.

I must admit, the wiring is super confusing to me with the three different knob and tubes running into and out of the box and especially with certain ones wound around another.

If someone could explain why two neutrals are wound together and two blacks are wound together that would be great and also explain why the GFCI is not working now. Pressing test and reset do nothing.

Edit: thanks for the help, I’ve got it figured out. Also, picture number two is what I found no what I did to fix the other issue lol 😂 I probably should’ve clarified that.

Edit: thanks for the help you guys and gals. I got it working. Simply my line and load were crossed. I have one black line wire and two black load wires. Ditto for the neutrals. Receptacle tester is now showing correct wiring.