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Default Circuit Breaker Indication In A House Service Box Question

On Apr 8, 8:05Â*am, " wrote:
On Apr 8, 7:52�am, "Robert11" wrote: Hello:

Is it possible that when a circuit breaker in a service box opens due to a
short in the circuit that it is controlling, that the lever does not (also)
move to the other position ?


e.g., that there might not be any visible indication that it has tripped ?


If so, is this fairly common with circuit breakers in a house service box ?
Likely ?


Why ?


Thanks,
Bob



If you have a dead circuit, but the circuit breaker is still on, I
would check any GFI outlets and see if they tripped. It's possible
they could be feeding other circuits downstream.