A few weeks ago I using the weed trimmer and I was pretty much finished trimming all of the edges except for one small area. To get to the area I had to disconnect and reconnect the power cord to my trimmer. When I went to finish the job, the weed trimmer would not start. I did a few quick checks and I couldn't find any obvious problems. Since I was in a hurry I decided the job was done and packed the equipment up.

Yesterday, I connected the hedge trimmer to trim a crawling vine on my fence and it wouldn't start. Then I remembered I had the same problem a few weeks ago and decided it was time to do a further investigation. I swapped extension cords and it still did not work. I switched to a different outside plug and it still didn't work. At that point it was looking like the problem was the outlet. I found a small desk light and plugged it into the original plug, since it was closest to the door, and it did not work.

At that point I noticed the Ground Fault Indicator (GFI) on the outlet. I pressed in the top button and the light came on, literally. So I found the problem was that the GFI on the first outside outlet on it was affecting the second outside outlet. Once that was done I was able to trim up vine and and also finish my earlier weed trimming job.