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The breaker behavior that signals a real problem, not an inconvenience
Your circuit breaker is not supposed to be a daily annoyance you grudgingly reset on the way to making coffee. When it starts ...
Have you ever come across a system that has tripped its circuit breaker and thought, “Great, a nice, easy service call. I’ll just need to reset the breaker and be on my way.” Well, it rarely turns out ...
Double-tapped circuit breakers are one of the most common electrical defects that home inspectors find. Everyone seems to sign off on this defect as a 'big deal', but I'm here to tell you it's not. It ...
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The fastest way to tell if a circuit is already overloaded
When a circuit is pushed past its limits, it rarely fails politely. It signals trouble through tripped breakers, hot outlets, ...
Over the past couple of years, an overload or fault on one branch circuit or another has caused the feeder breaker to trip instead of the branch circuit breaker. Having to troubleshoot several branch ...
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