Q: Every few hours—sometimes minutes!—my living room and one side of my kitchen lose electrical power. I’ll check the breaker panel and, sure enough, a circuit breaker has tripped…again. Should I call ...

Nobody looks forward to a power outage. After all, we rely on electricity to power appliances. And when there is a blackout, the situation can move from a minor to a stressful one quite easily. That ...

Your circuit breaker is not supposed to be a daily annoyance you grudgingly reset on the way to making coffee. When it starts ...

Wiring Problems: When an AFCI circuit breaker is installed, the wiring for that circuit needs to be done a little bit differently. When AFCI devices are first started being installed, it was common ...

An older couple taking a look at their circuit breaker box - Coldsnowstorm/Getty Images Circuit breakers can be frustrating. You're happily bopping through your day, perhaps craving an English Muffin, ...

During a routine generator test at a hospital, the results revealed the need to reset the hospital’s molded-case circuit breakers (MCCBs) to the correct value per a coordination study. One of the ...

A few weeks ago, a 400A feeder breaker started exhibiting nuisance trips. DMM measurements, taken randomly, show the breaker is nowhere close to its maximum load. During shift changes over the weekend ...

Your garage wiring probably worked fine when it only had to feed a door opener and a single outlet. The trouble starts when ...

Circuit breaker keeps tripping is a warning, not a nuisance. Repeated trips can signal overloads, wiring faults, ground faults, or coordination problems, and misreading the cause risks overheating, ...