I was running too many appliances on a circuit and I tripped the circuit breaker and nothing on that circuit will work. The rest of the house is ok. What can be the problem? Any ideas?
2007-01-01 14:11:10 · 7 answers · asked by Broadgonebiker 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
If the circuit is in the kitchen or bath, it's highly likely that the circuit has a gfci outlet somewhere on it. That's the electrical outlet than has red and black buttons in its center. Push the red one, then the black one. Now go to the breaker box and throw the breaker all the back and all the way forward.
It doesn't matter if the gfci is the outlet you were using. It will trip if any of the outlets strung with it overload. Sometimes you'll find it on the other side of the wall from the one you were working on (electricians wire both sides of a wall at the same time before the sheetrock is installed). But usually you'll find it near a sink or other water source.
Good luck.
2007-01-01 15:45:18 · answer #1 · answered by Denise T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you did say that you tripped the circuit breaker. (We believe you.) Now unplug the excess appliances on the tripped circuit and then go to the panel where the tripped circuit breaker is; then reset it (the circuit breaker): Typically that's done by shifting the toggle to the extreme off position (it might take more than a simple finger flip to do this; you might have to further press the switch to an extreme off position (and fell a feedback-click-in-place); then flip the circuit breaker switch back to on.
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
2007-01-01 23:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by answerING 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry. All you have to do is locate the fusebox and reset the breaker that tripped and the circuit will have power again. All that happened was that power stopped going through the circuit, not a problem.
2007-01-01 22:15:57 · answer #3 · answered by M.C. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reset the breaker by turning it off usually to the left and then to the on position. If this does not work, I suggest turning the curcuit back off and calling an electrician, as you might have fried the wire in the wall.
2007-01-01 22:17:38 · answer #4 · answered by ken z 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reset the circuit breaker by first turning it off, then resetting it.
2007-01-01 22:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by chris c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reset the circut breaker
2007-01-01 22:19:44 · answer #6 · answered by Rays Fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reset the breaker, and don't overload it again.
2007-01-01 22:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋