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re: AFCI - Breaker keeps tripping.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 5:01 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 8/7/19 at 5:01 pm to fightin tigers
Make sure nothing is plugged into the circuit and make sure the breaker is off.
Use an ohm meter to check for a short by touching the leads to the black wire and white wire. Then black to ground. Then white to ground.
If there is a short. Start unhooking wires from each outlet, switch, light, etc. And then check for the short using the same method.
This well help you figure out what stretch of wire your short is in.
Now if you dont find a short with the ohm meter, theres a possibility its arching somewhere. That's a little hard to find.
In that case, you can start with leaving the outlet, switch, whatever the the line runs to first connected. Then unhooking the rest of the circuit that feeds the other outlets, etc.
Cut the power on and see if it trips. If it doesnt, the. You know that stretch is good.
Then go to the next outlet etc and do the same thing. Keep working down the line until it trips. That well help you locate the stretch were it may be arching.
Use an ohm meter to check for a short by touching the leads to the black wire and white wire. Then black to ground. Then white to ground.
If there is a short. Start unhooking wires from each outlet, switch, light, etc. And then check for the short using the same method.
This well help you figure out what stretch of wire your short is in.
Now if you dont find a short with the ohm meter, theres a possibility its arching somewhere. That's a little hard to find.
In that case, you can start with leaving the outlet, switch, whatever the the line runs to first connected. Then unhooking the rest of the circuit that feeds the other outlets, etc.
Cut the power on and see if it trips. If it doesnt, the. You know that stretch is good.
Then go to the next outlet etc and do the same thing. Keep working down the line until it trips. That well help you locate the stretch were it may be arching.
This post was edited on 8/7/19 at 5:51 pm
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Posted on 8/7/19 at 6:23 pm to NATidefan
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In that case, you can start with leaving the outlet, switch, whatever the the line runs to first connected. Then unhooking the rest of the circuit that feeds the other outlets, etc.
Cut the power on and see if it trips. If it doesnt, the. You know that stretch is good.
Then go to the next outlet etc and do the same thing. Keep working down the line until it trips. That well help you locate the stretch were it may be arching.
Yep. This is my MO right now. Will check continuity and ohm, but it almost seems like this thing is intermittent or going to be really low. Almost like it needs to heat up or will look like background noise on a meter.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 6:44 pm to NATidefan
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Use an ohm meter to check for a short by touching the leads to the black wire and white wire. Then black to ground. Then white to ground.
There is a reasonably good chance that white and ground are bonded at the main box so that would read like a short anyway. But black to white should give you an infinite reading if nothing is connected to the circuit. If it reads anything, verify nothing is plugged in or switched on. Any coil on the circuit may look a lot like a short,
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