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   danz857 | May 01, 2007 09:30pm | #1

   not a sparkie but you have to pull the outlets in question, an open ground means that the outlet is not grounded, there should be a pigtail of three ground (bare) wires (except for the last outlet on the circut) with one connected to the grounding screw on the outlet. If there is only one black one white and one ground (bare) wire the outlet is the last outlet on the circut which means you connect the one ground wire (no pigtail requried) directly to the grounding (usually green) screw  The open netural means that the netural(s), white wire(s) are not connected properly to the outlet . The white wire(s) should be connected (usually to the silver screws) to the outlet (do not connect the white wire to the same side as the black wire is attached to which is usually a brass looking screw). There will be one or two white wires depending on where in the circut the outet is located. Again the problem is at the outlet not the breaker. Might be a good idea to pull an outlet that indicates correct to get a look at what a proper wired outlet looks like.

   dan

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   Edited 5/1/2007 2:41 pm ET by danz857

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   danz857 | May 01, 2007 09:52pm | #2

   Now that i think of it may be that only one is not correctly wired..... if one outlet in the middle of the circuit is not wired correctly the others following would also indicate that they are not wired correctly........so start with the first one that idicates incorrect....... and dont forget to turn off the breaker