Michael Young
In the Trades
Have you hunted around and located (and reset) all of your GFCI's? I have a house I've been working on that has a similar problem. We never could find the short. So I just went up in the attic and used some glow rods to pull a new home-run.Fitter,
The box feeds 1) a kitchen ceiling can, 2) two exterior deck lights, 3) two exterior patio lights, 4) an under eave security light, 5) another under eave security light, and 6) I'm not sure (see above, could be the three way Michael saw.
I have replaced the deck and patio fixtures; the others are original.
If you take a piece of 12-2 wire and put an outlet on one side. then take the live end and connect the hot, neutral and ground. What happens when you plug it in and bypass electricity to the circuit? do all the lights come on? does it spark? does it trip the breaker immediately? If you have any outlets in your dead circuit, you could buy one of those Male-Male extension cords and bypass power that way (illegal. but sometimes we use bypass power for diagnostics)