[ale] (Somewhat OT) Blown circuit breakers?

[Joshua Kite]

This sounds like something my wife and I would do - take on a project, work
late a night, do something silly.  Running reciprocating saws after midnight
should be avoided whenever possible, even if the kids can sleep through
them!

How old is your house?

Do you have any GFCI outlets on that circuit?  Have you tried resetting
them?  (I spent an hour in my old house wondering why some lights were on
and others weren't; the outlets were in series behind a GFCI outlet.)

I can't right now think of anything else to look for.  Replacing the breaker
is probably a good start.

Good luck,

Josh Kite

On 9/26/06, Chris Woodfield <rekoil at semihuman.com> wrote:
>
> As I'm sure there are a few folks with electrical experience here...
>
> I'm in the middle of a bathroom remodeling project, and yesterday my
> wife was putting down drywall mud around an electrical box that had
> live wires coming out of it (yeah, I should have capped them...), and
> accidentally shorted them with a mudding knife, which tripped the
> circuit breaker. She reset the breaker, and carried on...until later
> that night, I did the same exact thing. However, this time the power
> did not come on when I reset the breaker, and every outlet/light
> attached to that breaker is now dead.
>
> I've never heard of a "blown" circuit breaker before, so is that what
> I should replace first (It's a 15A single-pole breaker)? Or should I
> be looking at a possibly melted wire somewhere in my wall? I'm going
> to replace the breaker, as they're cheap, just looking for other
> possible problems this could have caused.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -C
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