My tv and washingmachine are dead, and i think its the fusebox.
what could make the fusebox malfunction?
2007-06-28 09:02:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
I suspect the fusebox did not malfunction. It did its job and kept you from burning down your house.
Electric wires can only carry a finite amount of current. If the electrical demand exceeds the amount it can handle, the wires would overheat and start a fire. You need to protect yourself from this sort of problem.
Fuses are the safety valve here. If your electrical demand exceeds the safe limit, the fuse melts and cuts off the power to the circuit.
If you blew the fuse when running the tv and washing machine you were drawing too much demand for the circuit. Turn off the TV and the Washer and whatever else is on the circuit that you know about. There may be a fault in the washer, the tv, or elsewhere.
Replace the fuse with a fuse of the same size (NEVER, EVER put in a fuse of larger size.) Fuses are rated in Amps. If you are unsure what to use, take the burned out one to the local hardware store and they can help you out.
Now after the new fuse is in place, turn on the washer and see if it runs without blowing the fuse. If so, try the tv without the washer running. If this is ok then you know that neither of these are defective. However, running both may overload things.
You may say that you have run both before. Did you run other appliances (fans, a.c. etc?). For some reason your power demand exceeded safe supply levels and the fuse cut off the electric feed as it is designed to do.
Consider yourself lucky. You could be without a house had it not worked.
2007-06-28 09:13:52 · answer #1 · answered by GTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A short in one of the branch ckts will cause a fuse to blow that's what they are made for check voltage on each fuse with a voltage tester and replace a blown fuse with one of the same rating its not the whole fuse box just the fuse that controls that branch ckt
or if you are talking about breakers see if one has 'tripped' and reset it by moving it to off and than back on if it trips back off than a problem in that branch ckt needs to be found and corrected by a electrician
2007-06-28 16:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would not be the box, but the fuses in it. You may be drawing more Amps/watts than the fuses can support. This makes them "blow" and disconnect electricity from the outlet. It is a safety feature to prevent fire.
2007-06-28 16:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a short circuit. which is when electricity finds a shorter path to the destination through another wire which gives it extra energy that could mess up the machine so the fuse box is designed to turn of the machine before it messes up
2007-06-28 16:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by jonathan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malfunction?
It is probably a blown fuse or 'tripped' circuit breaker. (depending on which one you have)
Just reset the circuit breaker or replace the fuse that has blown.
This is usually the result of running too many appliances/devices on one circuit.
2007-06-28 16:07:52 · answer #5 · answered by No Chance Without Bernoulli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its like this:
when they put copper wires in your hous, they have to make sure they are thick enough to be safe and not heat up and cause fires
So...........they put in fuses (an intentional weak link in the system) so that the weak small wire in the fuse melts first, indicating that either you have too many things plugged in , or that the system doesn't have strong enough wires
2007-06-28 16:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋