Timeline for Dual function circuit tests OK, but breaker trips
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| Sep 16, 2023 at 3:04 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Beware of the bare ground wire touching the neutral connection when putting things in the box, a common enough cause. If you can't find it by inspection, and you have multiple boxes, disconnect the wires from the first box to other boxes and see if the problem remains with just the first box and the breaker, which gives you fewer places to look for a problem. Then reconnect the wire to the next box, and if the problem returns, you'll have a better idea of where it is. I you have lots of boxes (seems unlikly for a laundry circuit) start in the middle to isolate problems. | |
| Sep 16, 2023 at 1:38 | comment | added | 5000fingers | Thank you. The neutral is definitely connected to the breaker. I suppose it's possible, though somewhat unlikely, that I knicked one of the conductors in one of the gang boxes with the rotozip. I'll check there, but if everything checks out in the boxes, what do I do then? | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 14:20 | history | edited | Ecnerwal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2023 at 14:12 | history | answered | Ecnerwal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |