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Question Recently the breaker that supplies power to my one bathroom, an outside plug and one plug in the kitchen keeps tripping. It is a 20 AMP Square D breaker. The bath room has a light bar with 4 lights one it and another light over the bath tub. Also there are four plugs.
All of a sudden - it has been years since any breaker has tripped anywhere in the house - with just the lights on in the bath the breaker would trip. I would wait for about ten minutes (usually a recommended time) and reset the breaker. Intermittently, the breaker would again trip with only the toaster on in the kitchen outlet - no lights on in the bath.
I took all of the cover plates off of the switches and the plugs to see if there had been any observable electrical arcing. There was none. I now have the panel cover off and am thinking of replacing the breaker itself.
Before I do this I thought I would contact you to see what your thoughts might be.
Thank you.
William Morrison
Answer William
Before you replace the breaker get or borrow an amp probe,this will allow you to see how many amps are on that circuit.This is also weird that the Kitchen and the bathroom and a outside plug are on the same circuit.Check the amps with everything on or check the amps with just 1 thing on at a time and then add them up if it goes above 20 amps the circuit is overloaded if this falls at 20 amps or less the breaker may be bad. So before you go out and buy a breaker swap this one with a same kind in the panel. Then wait and see what happens,if the breaker trips the circuit is overloaded if not then go buy a new breaker.
