billy915
Well-Known Member
Quick question. Do circuit breakers need maintenance? I'm asking because some but not all of my wall sockets in my kitchen don't work anymore. Any advice?
*In my personal experience, I wouldn't trust one of those no-contact voltage detectors for ANYTHING. There are several things you can unknowingly do while using them that would render them useless. IMO, they're novelty junk that has no business in a working toolbox.
Heck, that's got nothing to do with YOUR age, and everything to do with the age of your house. I'd be willing to bet a fair number of the houses in my town still have screw-in fuses.Just to show my age- switch type breakers or fuses?
Well, this is my breaker. Didn't notice a halfway point. Just turned them all off. Replaced the gfci socket and still nothing. With the other socket I noticed I couldn't keep the reset button to hold in the "pushed down" position. Same with the new socket. Does that mean something's wrong with the internal wiring?
The results are in. It's bad wiring. The wire goes from my island socket under my kitchen floor, behind my dish washer to another socket. Didn't have it replaced today, but the other sockets are working just fine now.
His thoughts were that when they were installing the electrical wire some of the insulation got damaged and over time it just got worse; now it causes the breaker to trip
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