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By Kim from Silver Springs, NV
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01/08/2011
Your breaker is tripping because the circuit is overloaded and gets hot enough to cause a disturbance in the circut. This can, indeed, be very dangerous. You need to get about 3/4 of that stuff off of just a 15 amp breaker! My refrigerator has a 15 amp breaker all to itself! I can't believe all the stuff that you have going onto that one small circuit breaker! I would really take a lot of that stuff off that breaker. You are asking for a fire for sure!
By
01/06/2011
I agree with everyone else. You have way too much stuff on that breaker, even without the gas heater. Call an electrician to install more breakers and sort this out for you.
By
01/06/2011
1) the circuit breaker has gone bad (they do that)
2) you have way, way too much on that breaker!
I would bet that the breaker trips when the heater comes on. The heater should be on its own breaker. I agree with everyone else, call the electrician now!
By
01/06/2011
You bet your bippy that's dangerous! Unplug everything and get an electrician out there today to help you sort out what is overloading that particular breaker! My guess is that whomever installed the new gas heater didn't 'add' a new breaker for it exclusively!
By
01/03/2011
You can't be serious. You have too many appliances running off one 15 amp circuit. You better have an electrican get over to your place and straigten out that mess before you burn down your home.
By
01/02/2011
Kim, if you can put all of that onto one 15 Amp breaker, then you deserve a Nobel prize, or two. You are probably not familiar enough with the situation to make any sense from any well meant instructions.
To avoid getting woken up by the fire department, please get an electrician to check it out.
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Our fridge freezer keeps tripping our circuit breaker. It is plugged into a 20 amp plug with its own breaker. It will last for about 15 minutes and then trip. Is it because the fridge is old?
By Lisa
By mbnorton59
07/11/2011
Check out this link. Also try plugging into a different outlet to test to see if it is you refrigerator or a bad breaker. Good luck. http://www.homegardenguides.com/gar ... 0-refrigerator-tripping-breaker.html
I have girls and they keep tripping the 20 amp breaker. I made sure there is 12 gauge wire and there are only two receptacles on this circuit. But when the girls plug in both hair dryers and curling irons it blows the breaker. Will I have to run a dedicated line for each receptacle?
By Troy
By Cajun62234
06/23/2011
A hairdryer is nominally rated 1500watts; according to the NEC, the breaker has to be rated at least 80% greater than the load. Hence, 1500w divided by 120vac = 12.5 amps x 125% = 15.63 Amps (minimum rating for the circuit breaker) Now if you have TWO hairdryers (12.5A x 2 = 25 Amps) on the one 20A ckt. breaker you'll trip every time. If you don't, then you really have problems.. You could run #10 Romex and change out to a 30A ckt. breaker but that will put the breaker at maximum capacity. It may make more sense to leave the #12awg, change the ckt. bkr. to a 25amp rating and run an identical separate ckt. of the same.Otherwise you will keep having issues. Plan B: Mohawk haircuts.
The breaker to our living room and patio has tripped twice at night. Once my husband just flipped it back on and it was fine. The next night it happened again and will not flip back on. The things on the breaker are just standard things (TV, 2 lamps, an overhead light and fan, as well as, the overhead lights and fans on patio).
We can't figure out why it won't flip back on or why it is tripping at night when everything is off. Any ideas? Oh, and this is a new construction home. We have been in it 1 1/2 years.
By K.D.
By fuzzytufts
07/12/2011
Usually you will find it on the outside part of the things you mentioned. A bug or spider in the fixture. Turn the breaker off and clean all the fixtures outside including the plug ins. Moisture sometimes causes the wires to corrode, usually something simple like that if it hasn't been doing it before. I do my own and there is no risk as long as the breaker is off.
I just moved into a brand new apartment, we are the first tenants to live here. In my bedroom I have a 47 inch TV, Xbox, surround sound system, alarm clock, cable box, laptop, desktop computer, and monitor (for the desktop), a total of 8 things plugged in.
My 20 amp breaker would pop all the time, so I unplugged everything except my Xbox, cable box, TV, and my surround sound. It still tripped the breaker. So I thought it might be the surge protector I have so I got another one and it still tripped. Now I have used two surge protectors and two separate outlets and it still trips all the time.
I currently have only three things plugged into two different surge protectors on two different outlets and it pops a lot less often, but I shouldn't have to do this. The breaker should easily be able to handle everything. I had an electrician come and check it out and they said everything was fine and it was probably something I had plugged in, but with my Xbox, TV, and surround it doesn't trip. If I add anything else no matter what, alarm clock, laptop charger, anything it trips. It's really getting old. Any suggestions? The breaker only runs the outlets, nothing else, no lights or anything.
By Tyler H.
By Deeli
05/23/2011
That's an awful lot of things to power through a 20 amp breaker and in most bedrooms in apartments 20 amp is standard for a bedroom. Have you asked your landlord if they would mind upping the breaker to higher amps? If he/she says no then consider placing that equipment in the living room instead. Don't even think to change the breaker yourself without the landlords permission because it's their property and if a fire ensues because of a change you made you will legally be held responsible for all damage.
I have an outside vapor light my husband installed on one end of our barn. The light is on a separate breaker with just the light and a plug on it. I have noticed the past few nights after it has been on about 6 hours the light goes out. When I went to check on it the next morning the breaker had tripped.
My husband had put another vapor light on the other end of our barn and it is fine; it also is on a separate breaker. We have a breaker box with about 20 breakers in it and so far none have tripped except the one.
By annie1 from Crosby, TX
By colleekely
07/27/2011
It could be a weak breaker. The ballast could be bad. Or there is a short somewhere. Try plugging into another breaker overnight to see if it trips the other breaker.
I just moved into a 1950s house. All the electric seemed to be working fine until carpet was installed yesterday. The circuit breaker flipped and flips again immediately after each attempt to turn it back on. There is no power being drawn on the circuit. It is only feeding overhead lights and outlets with nothing plugged in.
By Susan
By frugalsunnie
08/26/2011
Mom-from-Missouri is right, and you need to get an electrician in ASAP. Check the contract on the carpet layers, you may be able to get some of the expense for the electrician back from the installer's insurance.
But get the house checked right away because as MoM writes, something has been nicked and it could start a fire.
I live in senior housing, 55 and older. I have a signed post for my vehicle. When I plug it in the breaker trips. So I move to another plugin and that works for a couple days, then when I plug in again it pops the breaker again. Maintenance keeps telling me it's my car, but if I go to a friend's and plug in there are no problems. I just have problems at the senior housing. Why does this happen?
By Marilyn
By louel53
11/28/2011
Do you have an interior car warmer or something else like that plugged in as well as your block heater? This may be overloading the circuit on the post that may be able to only handle a block heater.
You could also mention this to your mechanic when you go for an oil change, and have him make sure that there is nothing wrong with the wiring to your block heater. In my experience, this is seldom the problem, but you never know.
We have a 3 bedroom house and my son's family started living with us. Before this we were only using 1 bedroom. Now there is a 110 volt window unit in every room, AT&T U-verse TV in every room, plus naturally the lights. The breaker started tripping (15 amp) so we bought a new one. The new one is tripping now. Help! What to do? Can we go up to a 20 amp breaker?
By Carol
By T&T Grandma
06/06/2011
You need an electrician. Hate to have a fire for a few cents saved. Until then, unplug all that does not have to be in. Including the kid's toys, big tvs, etc.
Unless you got a McMansion or recently updated electrical system, your house was not built for all the electric hogs. People used to have 1 tv, fridge, freezer, laundry done in the daytime when all other things were off. You read about fires being caused by electrical issues. This would be one, not lightening.
I have a 15 amp Federal Pacific Stab-Lok circuit breaker that keeps tripping. In the house the lights flicker every once in a while.
My circuit breaker keeps tripping without a load on it. I have a pool cover, a light, and sprinkler timer on the circuit. None of them run at the same time. Even if they do they still will not trip the circuit breaker.
I have a 20 amp breaker with red test button. The only thing running off it is a microwave.
My 15 amp circuit breaker keeps tripping. The only things that it operates are the garage door opener and the garage lights.
I have a 15 amp breaker that started tripping last night. I unplugged everything on that circuit and it still trips.
I have a breaker that is tripping every couple of days. It services 6 outlets on our family room.
I know I need to get an electrician, but think I need to isolate the problems a little first. Being a complete novice I hope someone out there can help.
I have a circuit breaker that just started tripping. My fridge was plugged into an outlet serviced by this breaker. I am wondering if the fridge may be the problem? Do I need an electrician?
The power went out in my bedroom. I checked the fuse box and breaker (arc fault breaker type braf 20) was tripped. It seems like the breaker was just sitting between on and off.
I would like to know why our circuit trips a lot. Is it because there is too much load on it?
My circuit breaker keeps tripping about every 30 minutes. It's never done it before; why is this?
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