Help have lost the lighting upstairs

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When an upstairs light was switched on today all of the upstairs lights went out, remainder of house OK. Have checked the breaker which has not tripped. Have swapped a breaker to see if that was the problem. Not sure what to do next. House is about 130 years old but fuse panel and wiring reasonably modern
 
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academynick said:
When an upstairs light was switched on today all of the upstairs lights went out, remainder of house OK. Have checked the breaker which has not tripped. Have swapped a breaker to see if that was the problem. Not sure what to do next. House is about 130 years old but fuse panel and wiring reasonably modern

you say you have swapped the breaker. and what were the results? were not mind readers. id hope that it has been re-wired at some point. imagine using 130 year old wiring
 
the breaker supplying the upstairs lighting circuit worked correctly when i swapped it to supply the downstairs lighting circuit. Wiring obviously not 130 years old but suspect some of wiring upstairs in attic rooms may be old. Appreciate the help but not the sarcasm.
 
exactly what happened when it went off? using a multimeter, try and find where there is power and where there isnt
 
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I wasn't there but I was told the light momentarily went on and then there was a popping sound and all the lights upstairs went off. Will try to establish where power is using multimeter
 
sounds like a bulb blew and the surge from the bulb blowing blew something else, probablly the thing that blew was a bad contact though it could also be a hidden fuse somewhere (you've already ruled out the breaker)

start by checking every connection on that cuircuit you can get to (ceiling roses jbs in loft etc) for bad connections. Failing that you are going to have to try and determine where the fault is between by testing sections of cable and then run new cable in place of the section thats not working.

P.S. be carefull when using the voltage range on multimeters. There very high imput impedance means they can sometimes show full mains voltage even though there is a very high resistance in the way that would prevent there being sufficiant power to run a lightbulb
 

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