FISHY smell can mean electrical problem

Artum Snowbird wrote:
If you have a laser thermometer, put the dot onto the terminal connections of each breaker. If there is a loose wire, it will show up as heat to the thermometer. The fishy smell could be from the bakelite in the breaker giving off as it heats up.

Just remember that the red dot does not have anything to do with measuring temperature. Most infrared temp guns "look" at a 3" diameter circle at a distance of 12" from the front of the gun. Larger areas the further away the gun is. Just a heads up that the bad connection/breaker could be tho one on either side of the one that the red dot is on.