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Now power from my living room. The outlet on the same circuit also now power. I used the Sperry Instrument tester and the outlet show lights on correctly. But when I plug a load on like a lamp or turn on my living room fan, then the Sperry instrument switch the lightning from Correct to Hot/GRD Reverse. But this living room has been good for 10 years already why now. I took the initative the replaced all the receptacles on the same circuit but still do the same thing.

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I wonder if you don't have a place where the wire has abraded through and is now able to track to earth, or even a Partial Disconnection of the Phase wire, at that point and where it has worn through, it is contacting ground. You could have a Phase disconnection, that is touching earth, and when a load comes on, the fault, because of the current draw, now goes "Full On" as it "Shorts" to earth, while at same time, cannot deliver much current past that fault point. You need to remove Power from that Circuit, then measure, for Continuity, from Breaker Board to each wire in the Socket, and From Phase & Neutral to Earth. You should get continuity between Phase & Neutral, BUT nothing between each of those and Earth. If you twist together, the Phase and Neutral at the Socket, from the breaker board end, you should get a very LOW OHMS reading under 1 -2 OHMS, if not that is a fault.

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I have a 78 holiday rambler imperal limited, I have no outlet power in bedroom, bathroom and two plugs in living room one plug in living room does work. All my fues are new????

It could be a couple of things.
1.Buy a plug tester from Home depot or Lowe's start from the one that works and move over to the ones that don't work. The Plug tester will tell you what wire is lose. Most of the time its just wire nut. BEFORE WORKING ON WIRES MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF POWER AND UNPLUG BATTERYS. Power must been on to use plug tester.
2. lose wire it could be the neutral", from the power inverter
Or in one of the j-boxes of the plugs.

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If I am trying to find the 'hotwire' for lights how do I do that? Do I touch 1 wire and the junction box then the other and the junction box and whichever lights the instrument that is the hot wire?

Test for hot wire:
By code, hot wire should be black.

Take photo of wiring so everything can be put back.
Remove wires from device.
Separate wires for testing.
Use ordinary tester.
Test each wire to bare ground wire.
Tester lights up on hot wire.

Now test for neutral wire.
You know hot wire.
Test each hot wire to other wires (except bare ground)
Tester lights up on neutral.

If you do not have a tester, take ordinary wall lamp.
Plug on wall lamp has 2 prongs.
Prongs should have a hole.
Spread prongs apart.
Wrap bare copper wire into hole on prong1.
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Just tested gfci receptacle with sperry gfci outlet tester and got all three (red,yellow,yellow) lights. What does this mean??

Your tester is defective then. All 3 lights should not light up. The correct wiring would be 2 yellow, no red.
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if the light bulb is off, you don't have power at the lightsocket, sometimes those testers are too sensible, speceally cheap ones.
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What does open neutral on my gb circuit tester also hot/ground reversed mean

An open neutral means that neutral, or common wire is not connected somewhere. If for example you test a outlet in a room, and the tester shows that you have an open neutral, Then somewhere along the circuit the neutral is not connected properly. In rooms most outlets are connected in series to each other, so if you have an open neutral in one outlet, it can affect all the other outlets too.

Hot/ground reversed means that the hot wire and the common wire are installed in the wrong order.on the outlet,you have a hot side (black wire)and a common side(white wire)and the hot wire is installed on the common side instead of the hot side and the common is installed on the hot side.This show up on the tester this way because the common and ground tie into the same bar in the panel.

Fix the open neutral first as this can show incorrect reading on the tester on all outlets after the open neutral.
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