[ale] (Somewhat OT) Blown circuit breakers?

[Joshua Kite]

Now I've just got to know.  Have you solved your problem????

What was it?  Dead breaker?  GFCI tripped?  UFO invasion?

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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