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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 ...

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

Have you ever come across a system that has tripped its circuit breaker and thought, “Great, a nice, easy service call. I’ll just need to reset the breaker and be on my way.” Well, it rarely turns out ...

Class A motorhomes and smaller campers typically run on both AC and DC power. The former is your electrical hookup at the campground. It runs the energy-demanding thing like your air conditioner, ...

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Unlike a conventional circuit breaker, which detects overloads and short circuits, an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) uses advanced electronic technology to sense different arcing conditions.

A circuit protected by a 1,200A circuit breaker had reached the design maximum of 960A. With 20% headroom, no new loads were added. But with harmonics, power factor, and other contributing problems (e ...