Home Improvement Asked by excessliquidity on August 14, 2021
One of my breakers keeps tripping – it is on a circuit with only a dishawasher and microwave on it. It is almost always the dishwasher that causes the break. Some days it does, some it doesn’t. Today, it was tripped by the microwave, even when the dishwasher was off. I cant test these applianes on another circuit because they are permanantly attached.
This leads me to think it might be a breaker problem – both appliances are brand new.
It looks to be like the breaker panel is not new – lots of rewiring was done in a remodel about 6 months ago but possibly not the breaker panel.
When i tried to look at information on what fuse to get to replace it, i realized it has none (see number22 in the picture). But it says its 20 amp – possibly its just older than the others? Can i just buy a replacement 20 amp fuse with the information from the breaker below it? Or are there different types apart from the amp rating?
Why not swap breakers 20 and 22 to see if the problem moves with the breaker?
Shut off the main breaker and remove the panel cover. You can disconnect and swap the wires from the two breakers without moving the breakers.
You should replace the panel cover as your test is going to take several days.
If breaker #19301 trips in position 20 then it is obviously bad. If breaker #20033 trips in position 22 then you have a difficult problem in circuit 22 -- probably a loose neutral connection.
If neither breaker trips after several days then breaker #19301 is faulty (but circuit 20 does not apply enough load to trip it).
EDIT in response to OP's comment about switching the wires without changing changing the breakers:
Actually, what I would do if this was my house, is disconnect the wires but not move them, then physically swap the breakers, then reconnect the wires to effect the swap. I didn't suggest this at first because it involves more steps and is more tedious to describe.
Now nothing has changed but the breakers. If the problem does not move with breaker #19301, then it could be in the panel bus bars behind the breaker, or where the neutral from the breaker connects to the neutral bar, or in the neutral connections somewhere in the run to the kitchen, etc. But you will know that you don't need to buy a new breaker.
Correct answer by A. I. Breveleri on August 14, 2021
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