Circuit Breaker Trips

Here are my thoughts about circuit breaker trips.

Switches for a journey of two reasons, a short circuit or a circuit overload. The short circuit is easier to explain and repair the most difficult to identify and declare an overloaded circuit is relatively easy to solve and easier to use.

A switch is designed to adjust the amount of current a wire to make sure. Therefore, most 110-volt lines in your home with 12 Gage wires are wired, and placed on a 20 amp circuit breaker. Maybe your house on May 14 Gage wire be wired and a 15 amp circuit breaker. You could blow a 15 amp circuit breaker at 12, a pro-Gage, but you can never be a place 20 A switch to 14 Gage wire.

You see, wire has a rated current capacity that can carry and 12/20, and 14.15 is the maximum for each circuit. This is what is violated when a trip to Circuit Breaker.

Ina short-circuit the hot wire is broken or may be just enough to take the insulation to make contact with the ground. When this happens causing a direct short, the current increase, the switch and when the current exceeds the rating on the switch for travel switch. If you try to set the option will immediately drive away. Remedying this situation requires a person with knowledge of electrical or hire an electrician. Electricity is dangerous, so do not play. It takes less than one amp to kill someone.

The other reason a circuit breaker trips, the road to reduce congestion. As I indicated, a circuit is a circuit breaker to protect the wire is served. If it is 12/20 then 20 amps is the maximum for the track. So, you plug in a hair dye that rated at 1500 watts and you decide to have more heating the 1500-watt curling iron. Now there is a simple calculation watts divided by voltage amplifiers. So 3000/120 = 25amps. The route is congested and travel. Connect one item at a time or to a different circuit for the curling iron!