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Big postholiday blowout
- Thread starter Rgarner
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If a breaker trips as you are trying to reset it, there is likely a short somewhere in that circuit or too much demand. Breakers that are tripped often can lose the ability to be reset but that doesn't sound like your problem. I suggest investigating to find the culprit. Circuit breakers are there to protect you and your property.
Also, if you mean "tried to reset it " as just trying to push it back to the right way, you should always disengage the breaker fully then reset it.
i always check the breaker by sticking my tongue to it. is that the wrong way to go about it?
Well, that "DOES" work.
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Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Flip the switch.
Watch the sparks fly.
the end
Watch the sparks fly.
the end
Obvious question: did you replace the light before attempting to reset?
But TBH if you can't reset it then it's likely the problem isn't the bulb. I'd check the switch for shorts first, just because it's the simplest and most accessible thing in the circuit. Then the light fixture. But damage anywhere in the circuit can do this, e.g. if a rodent got into the wall or ceiling and chewed a wire that could produce a short - hopefully it's nothing like that though.
But TBH if you can't reset it then it's likely the problem isn't the bulb. I'd check the switch for shorts first, just because it's the simplest and most accessible thing in the circuit. Then the light fixture. But damage anywhere in the circuit can do this, e.g. if a rodent got into the wall or ceiling and chewed a wire that could produce a short - hopefully it's nothing like that though.
Milo Willamson
Extreme Android User
Yeah whenever that was, our big breaker quit on us one random day, so my mother's boyfriend is a part time farmer for us, he does mostly electrical stuff, so he was able to switch it on and off for us. That was a bit ago.