Urgent help needed with my circuit breakers?

Question

while cooking I threw a breaker. I went to the box and turned what I thought was the breaker for the kitchen back on, it wasn't, it was for the family room. I turned it back on and then turned on the breaker for the kitchen. The kitchen stuff came back on, but now the lights and tv won't turn back on in the family room. I believe that there is a certain way to reset the entire breaker box and an order you have to go through to reset them. It's specific and if you don't do it in order, then it doesn't work. Please help if you know how to fix the problem. Thanks

Answer 1

Aha. Go back to the breaker box and find the breaker for the family room. Throw it all the way off and then all the way on. (A circuit breaker has three positions: "on", "tripped" and "off". You may have flipped it to tripped.) Each breaker is a separate circuit so the order would make no difference, each is independent. The only breaker that controls the entire box is the MAIN, and if that is off then everything is off.

Answer 2

Never heard of a breaker box that had a special order. Turn off the breaker to the family room, after you turn everything in it off, for 5 minutes. Then turn it back on. Now go and turn each item on, if it works then the items have an internal protection circuit, if not turn the breaker off and call an electrican in the morning, you may have stumbled on a problem in the making.

Answer 3

DOn;t know what type breaker box you have , but reset breaker for living room by all the way left or right untill yo uhear or feel a click wait a sec and then the other direction . if it wont; reset replace breaker

Answer 4

Look for a GFI outlet that someone might have accidentally pushed the test button. Press the RED reset button on the GFI outlets. The lights should come on.

That's if all the breakers are in position in the breaker box. You shouldn't have to do them in a sequence.

Answer 5

Pull the breaker all the way to the left and then push it all the way to the right.You may have to do this a couple of times but it will catch and take in the on position.The other breakers have nothing to do with one another.They are hooked up independently

Answer 6

You need a qualified Electrician with a tester to come by and fix your problem. Call your local IBEW Union Hall and ask them to refer a contractor to you. If you call some scab/rat company it's gonna cost you probably twice as much to get it fixed cause they don't have the training to diagnose the problem in a timely fashion. Plus they'll probably give you a load of mumbo jumbo and tell you their gonna need to tear into a finished wall or some crap. There is no magic order to reset the breaker that will fix the problem--if there is then I'd charge more money!!! If you have noticed a certain order of turning them on that solves the problem it's definitely some type of short that will occur again eventually or you may get lucky and it will arc itself clear. I'd definitely get is checked out because those type of shorts are the ones that lead to fires because they get progressively worse due the oxidation process of the copper wiring induced by the humidity in the air.

Answer 7

Reset the breaker again to the family room -- push firmly all the way to off --then push to on --- "feel it" reset. Should do it.

Answer 8

If you still have no electricity after you've reset your circuit breakers, try turning off the main breaker switch and all your circuit breaker switches. Then turn on the main breaker switch and reset each circuit breaker switch.

Answer 9

You might have a bad breaker. Sometimes they look ON, but need to be snapped again to make it work. If that does not work, I would get an electrician. You don't want to burn your house down with faulty wiring.

Answer 10

Shut the breaker off and snap it back on.