DIYbanter - View Single Post - Lights keep going out, without Circuit Tripping

HeyBub

wrote:
First time posting here, and this is gonna be longer than I want, so
thanks in advance for your time.

The lights in one room of my house used to flicker occassionally,
which got to be really annoying, so we called in an electrician. He
replaced the 15A breaker, and it seemed to work OK for a while.
About two weeks later, the problem happened again, and he came back
out to replace the breaker. This particular breaker controls 4 can
lights in a room, a fan, an outside Security light, and the Garage
Door Opener.

Betcha you got a defective connection on a stab-in connector. These are
usually found on wall outlets (perhaps one you're not using), but could
exist elsewhere. The defect is upstream of, and on the same circuit with,
the devices displaying the symptom.

As another poster suggested, swap the wires from the supposed defective
breaker with another and see if the problem moves. If you still have the
same problem, the fault is not with the breaker or its box.