There are times when you need to trace an outlet to a circuit breaker. Maybe you need to replace the outlet. Maybe you need troubleshoot. Or maybe you are adding additional outlets and want to make sure you don’t overload the circuit. In this blog post, I will describe two ways to determine what circuit an outlet is on. I’ll also tell you how to know if two outlets share the same breaker.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
