Electrical Fault CheckHome electrical diagnostics

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Electrical problem at home? Find the next safe check.

Answer a few plain questions about what you're seeing. You'll get the most likely cause, one safe thing to check, and a clear line for when to stop and call a licensed electrician. Nothing you enter leaves your device.

What's happening?
Why you can trust the answer

Computed, not guessed

Every result comes from a fixed diagnostic model, not a chatbot. When it can't stand behind an answer, it says so instead of inventing one.

Shows its sources

Each diagnostic names the specific electrical code and standards it's based on, and re-checks them on a schedule.

Knows its limits

It gives you the one safe thing to check, and says plainly when to stop and bring in a licensed electrician. It never tells you to work on live wiring.

Pick a diagnostic

Checks for common home electrical faults

GFCI reset diagnostic

Why a GFCI won't reset, or trips again the instant you reset it.

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Surge protector status check

Read the indicator lights and tell whether protection is still active.

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GFCI trip cause diagnostic

Whether it's the wiring, a plugged-in load, or the device doing the tripping.

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Outlet tester result decoder

Translate the three-light pattern on a plug-in outlet tester into plain English.

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Breaker trip load checker

Whether the load on a circuit is within a breaker's safe continuous limit.

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Extension cord load checker

If a cord's gauge and length can safely carry what you're plugging into it.

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Multimeter reading decoder

Make sense of a voltage reading against what's expected.

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