We had just bought a little conventional oven for the kitchen so we can bake chicken. Today I had some chicken baking in the little oven and when I came back to check up on it, it was off. I noticed that our rice cooker wasn't powered on either, come to find out, none of the appliances that required power outlets were not working. Including the refridgerator!!! In our other rooms, everything works fine, the outlets are working. It's just the ones in the kitchen, does anyone know what happened?? And what should I do to fix this? Is it something with the circuit breaker? We turned it off and turned it back on but its still not working....
2006-10-14 19:05:19 · 22 answers · asked by preshusQD 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
In the electrical panel, how would you know which breaker is out? Is there something on the breakers that shows which one is blown out or do you have to check them one by one?
2006-10-14 19:29:33 · update #1
Your lights are probably on a different circuit than the power outlets.
You have probably put too much drain on the circuit which powers the outlets in the kitchen, so you may not be able to run all those appliances at the same time.
Unplug the convection oven and rice cooker and try to reset the circuit breaker again. The last time you tried it, the devices were trying to use a lot of current heating the food and it was still too much drain for the circuit.
You should call in an electrician to create another circuit for the kitchen outlets, putting the room on one and the fridge on another by itself. The fridge may have cycled in just as the convection oven and rice cooker were drawing power.
2006-10-14 19:16:16 · answer #1 · answered by Mmerobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've overloaded the circuit that the oven is on, and the breaker has been thrown (or fuse blown if it's older wiring). It sounds like the fridge is also on the same circuit, and I suspect that together, those two were enough to do the deed. Unplug the oven, reset the breaker, find a circuit that is not so heavily loaded, and plug your oven in there. If it continues to happen, quit using the oven, and call an electrician; it may be that something has been damaged in a more permanant way.
2006-10-14 19:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Checking the circuit breaker is a good idea, but before you do that, check your Ground Fault Circuit Interupter (GFCI) outlets first.
All houses built in America in the past couple of decades require there to be GFCI protection on all outlets within a certain (varies by state) distance away from any source of water (kitchen or bathroom sink; bathtub, etc.).
This protection shuts off the current flow when something is grounded out, like when you drop a hairdryer in the bathtub.
A GFCI-eqipped outlet will have two buttons on it - "Test" and "Reset". Hitting the "reset" will... you guessed it - reset the circuit. It will immediately trip again if there is still a ground fault.
Keep in mind that not every outlet needs to be GFCI-equipped to be GFCI-protected. Several standard (no buttons) outlets can be daisy-chained off of a single GFCI-eqipped (with buttons) outlet.
This means you may have only one outlet with buttons per room, but all of the outlets in that room run off of that same circuit.
2006-10-14 19:22:46 · answer #3 · answered by A Whitty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing to do is find the breaker that poped. What you can do is flip all of the breakers to reset all of them or just the one that says off. Before you flip it, Unplug everything from that outlet and then turn it back on. Then plug 1 thing at a time to see if it did anything, If not, U might have blown that fuse and might have to replace it.
2006-10-14 19:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by cratty_3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lights work off a seperate breaker than the plugs do, most of the time the breaker will look as if it is still on when it trips, it will feel loose if you were to giggle each one abit you should find easily, then just flip it completely off and then back on........you probably have a tweenty amp breaker, and may get a 30 amp, that is what i would do , but i fear not fire......the wires, are they in good condition, are they copper,which refines in the fire very nicely, humor. or are they alluminum, which is not as good and may not be safe to upgrade breaker. copper should be fine i would have no fear with the copper... just take the cover off the box and you can see, you have to take it off to change the breaker anyway. and when you change the breaker maybe you should call meemail is correct, leave message
2006-10-14 19:23:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, the reason the circuit breaker trips is because the microwave and toaster are both on the same circuit and together they draw more current than the circuit breaker will allow. The lights are on a separate circuit which does not trip. To keep the circuit from tripping you should use only one appliance at a time. To reset the tripped breaker, look for a handle that is in the middle position. Many circuit breakers require that you flip the handle all the way to the OFF position and then back to the ON position. If you simply try to push the handle to the ON position then it will not reset.
2016-03-28 09:51:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check circuit breaker. There also might be a GFI (ground fault interruptor) on each outlet. It's a little reset button in the middle of the outlet. Unlikely all would blow at once though.
2006-10-14 19:09:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure to check all of them by turning them off and turning them back on. Unplug the stove first. Also do any of the plugs in the kitchen have 2 buttons on them. These are called Ground Fault Interrupter or GFI. Make sure none of them have tripped as some are wired to work on more than one outlet. If you still have problems call the people that installed it or if you did it yourself call a electrician.
2006-10-14 19:11:47 · answer #8 · answered by billy f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well now...you definately blew abreaker....in the kitchen...I mean howmany things did you plan on pluggin in?a standard Kitchen circuit is wired for20 amps...your convection little oven uses about 10 I am guessing, and your rice cooker the same or close to it, and your fridge probably around 6-8 amps also not to mention anything eles you might have plugged in! yourtalking aprox 30amps on a 20 amp circuit. breaker trips ofcourse...
and wont rest unless you unplug something, and possibly tripped a gfci oultlet also! whichmay need resetting
2006-10-15 03:31:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check circuit breakers
2006-10-14 19:11:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋