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 ...

Nobody looks forward to a power outage. After all, we rely on electricity to power appliances. And when there is a blackout, the situation can move from a minor to a stressful one quite easily. That ...

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 ...

AFCI circuit breakers are specialty safety devices that have been around for well over a decade, and their job is to prevent fires. They get better and better as time goes on, but they're still not a ...

If a motor isn't adequately protected, a short circuit will likely result in premature replacement. Then there's the problem of nuisance tripping upon initial start-up because the magnetic setting of ...

My friend's dad has some very strage problems with his PC. He took it to his ISP to have them diagnose an unrelated problem (software-related) several days ago. Ever since he plugged it back in at ...

I figured this was more of a lounge type topic. I have a 15 amp circuit breaker that handles the power to the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms. The 2nd bedroom is where my office is and subsequently where my ...

Call a licensed, highly rated electrician. Your home's circuit breakers are crucial safety devices and they're working as designed, says Paul Hampton, owner of A-1 Electric Co. Inc., a highly rated ...

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Arc-fault circuit breakers are a boon for household electrical safety. The garden-variety home electrical fire is usually started by the heat coming from a faulty wire arcing over. But as any radio ...