Electrical question on AF1140
I can't seem to get hold of my dealer, was hoping you could help with (I hope) a stupid question. All my plugs on my gp2 loop are not working. We popped a breaker on that loop for the tenth time, but ...
Forum Discussion
If you put in a new breaker, then turned it on, and it stayed on, then the power could be coming trough the breaker and out to all your devices.
What may very well have happened is the return wire, yes that white wire that comes back from all your devices, may be loose or burned off in it's place on the white wire buss in the breaker panel.
What you should do is turn off the main power, and then take a screwdriver and tighten each hot wire on the breakers, and each and every white wire on the return buss.
If you can identify the cable that feeds out off the breaker itself, then follow the white wire back to the buss and see if it's loose.
Once the wire heats under usage, then cools, it looses it's grip under the wire tie down screw. This looseness causes a hotspot, and heat takes current from the circuit. This then makes the breaker trip out. Each time you reset it, the resulting heat makes the connection come a bit looser. After a while, the connection has come so loose that there is no connection at all.
What may very well have happened is the return wire, yes that white wire that comes back from all your devices, may be loose or burned off in it's place on the white wire buss in the breaker panel.
What you should do is turn off the main power, and then take a screwdriver and tighten each hot wire on the breakers, and each and every white wire on the return buss.
If you can identify the cable that feeds out off the breaker itself, then follow the white wire back to the buss and see if it's loose.
Once the wire heats under usage, then cools, it looses it's grip under the wire tie down screw. This looseness causes a hotspot, and heat takes current from the circuit. This then makes the breaker trip out. Each time you reset it, the resulting heat makes the connection come a bit looser. After a while, the connection has come so loose that there is no connection at all.
