Timeline for Why does half the house go out when a single breaker trips?
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| Apr 5, 2015 at 17:21 | answer | added | ThreePhaseEel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 5, 2014 at 17:12 | comment | added | Pigrew | Could this be a split bus panel, where the one breaker DOES control many of the other circuits? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 19:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackDIY/status/270965442946928640 | ||
| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:07 | history | edited | Niall C.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 15:33 | comment | added | Fiasco Labs | How old is this house? 200A service? Is this 1/2 of the main power entry breaker (200A)? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:57 | history | edited | Tester101 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | Steven | Are other circuits going out, or does it just happen that a lot of the house is on one breaker? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:14 | comment | added | maple_shaft | If it is an older home then it wouldn't surprise me. They used to run many fixtures and receptacles to a single circuit in an unbalanced way because it was easier and cheaper. Also because back then there were far fewer appliances as there are now so the risk of tripping the breaker back then was negligible even with 8 receptacles and several fixtures all on a single circuit. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:48 | comment | added | GdD | Is it a single breaker going, or are several tripping at once? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:39 | comment | added | The Evil Greebo | Did you open the panel (carefully) and look to see if the wiring had maybe been reconfigured? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:35 | history | asked | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |