Can you find the tripped circuit breaker?

[GON]

Lots of rain in Southern New Mexico over the past 48 hours. Wife called that the outside fridge has no power, and the pool cover pump isn’t discharging water.

Ask the wife to go to the circuit breakers. She goes and as usual her visual inspection doesn’t identify a tripped breaker. I asked her to do a hand check of each breaker, trying to find play in one breaker, she says that is above her abilities.

Either I call an electrician, or have a plan B. plan B is a picture of the circuit breakers and see if one looks different than the other.

Plan B worked. The tripped breaker not overly noticeable. Can you find the tripped breaker? The photo on BITOG may not have a good enough resolution.

On a funny note, I thanked my wife for solving the problem with me. Her response was she got zero satisfaction working on this issue, and I better return to conus sooner than later.

 

[Dr Oldz]

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[GON]

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You sir nailed it. Picture is hard to see- you have great vision.

 

[SC Maintenance]

There not required to be labeled in NM?

Never mind - I see it now.

 

[Dr Oldz]

They are certainly are hard to spot sometimes. And for whatever reason, seems the panels are in low or insufficient lighting conditions.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

There not required to be labeled in NM?

Never mind - I see it now.

Is it required anywhere? I wish it was everywhere

 

[mrsilv04]

So... has GON thought of a new avatar picture yet?

 

[Gyro Gearloose]

In both the houses I've owned the tripped status has been between off and on.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

I didn't know Square D made that style breaker

I know Eaton makes those where it trips in the middle, and you have to turn it off then back on, but I didn't know they made them, too.

And yeah, the ones that have the red indicator are better

 

[Hall]

In both the houses I've owned the tripped status has been between off and on.

I know Eaton makes those where it trips in the middle

In my experience, this is how most modern one are when tripped.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

In my experience, this is how most modern one are when tripped.

How is that a better design than the old one?

 

[Hall]

How is that a better design than the old one?

Probably have to wait until Monday, but you could call Schneider, ITT, and others to check.

 

[CKN]

It's happened to me. I just flip all the breakers off then on. Not at once.......

 

[repairman54]

Common. When you deal with them on a regular basis you get tuned into it. Easy to detect with marked ones, unmarked a PITA.
I can't tell you how many clocks on the job I reset for my elderly customers doing the breaker shuffle to avoid a bad survey.

 

[y_p_w]

Trying to explain “play” over the phone to someone without experience is a bit difficult. But yeah, 4th from the top on the right column.

Some newer breakers have LED indicators. Like red tripped, green on, and white unconnected to power.

 

[zzyzzx]

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