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The one bedroom wall outlets where my daughter is living are not working. I tested the respective breaker and there is 115 volts there. However none of the 4 outlets in that room are have voltage at the outlet plugs. There is voltage at the wiring to the outlets. There are 3 wires + one equipment ground wire. I tried reading across all 3 wires, nothing. I then read across the equipment ground wire to each of the other 3 wires individually. They all have voltage. I'm using my wiggy tester and the voltage appears to be just under 100 volts. Shouldn't one of these wires be a neutral leg? If it is, how can I identify which one that is, when they all are reading voltage across the equipment ground wire? I believe this is also the type of outlet that is wired with a light switch to bring on a lamp. Is that normally the lower outlet plug? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Tommy.

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