Circut Breaker Problem
#1
01-04-05, 11:04 AM
Circut Breaker Problem
I woke up this morning to no lights in my bathroom, when I try to reset the breaker the meter speeds up and the breaker trips a few seconds later. Could this be due to a bad GFCI, all the lights and plugs in both bathrooms are on one 20amp circut. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
#2
01-04-05, 12:44 PM
Member
Do not keep resetting this breaker. It is overloaded. In addition to supporting the bathroom, this circuit may support other stuff, perhaps stuff far from the bathroom. Look in the garage, the basement, the front porch, the back porch, etc. Figure out everything that is on this circuit and disconnect it before trying to reset the breaker again.
If you determine, through exhaustive searching, that the circuit is indeed confined to this one bathroom, then you'll need to start disconnecting things (removing light fixtures, removing switches, removing receptacles) until the breaker can be reset.
Has anybody changed anything on the home's electrical system recently?
If you determine, through exhaustive searching, that the circuit is indeed confined to this one bathroom, then you'll need to start disconnecting things (removing light fixtures, removing switches, removing receptacles) until the breaker can be reset.
Has anybody changed anything on the home's electrical system recently?
#4
01-04-05, 01:44 PM
Member
If you added two brand new circuits with new circuit breakers, it doesn't seem likely that this could be related to your problem. Did this work coincide with the start of the problem?
Start searching.
Start searching.
#5
01-04-05, 01:51 PM
No, the work I did was about two weeks ago, and I split the existing 220 circut to make 2 110 circuts, I changed the 50amp breaker in the main panel to two 20amp breakers. I am a little uneasy about it because the nuetral and ground are on the same wire. I have had no problems until this morning.
#6
01-04-05, 02:22 PM
What do you mean "nuetral and ground are on the same wire"?
have you tried unplugging everything on the bathroom circuit (and I do mean everything)?
have you tried unplugging everything on the bathroom circuit (and I do mean everything)?
#7
01-04-05, 02:50 PM
How did you "split" the existing circuit? Why? What was the old circuit feeding? 50A is a large breaker, and usually it feeds either a subpanel or a large load (range).
Are you sure both bathrooms are on the same breaker? Perhaps they used a multiwire circuit (shared neutral) to feed both bathrooms.
Are you sure both bathrooms are on the same breaker? Perhaps they used a multiwire circuit (shared neutral) to feed both bathrooms.
