On 01/21/2016 2:15 PM, E. Robinson wrote:
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16. Maybe that one bulb caused the circuit to blow? Naaah.

Not at all unusual for a bulb catastrophic failure to pop a circuit on
the instantaneous failure if it fails as in 'pop!'.

I removed the one bad bulb, but, other than that, nothing (that I know of)
has changed between now and two days ago (other than the rain stopped, which
has been constant here in California the past few weeks).

I don't understand, but, somehow, that ingenious trick showed not only
that the circuit breaker was good, but, that the circuit, somehow,
is (at least now) also good.

Makes no sense, I agree.
But that's the data.
I will let you know if it trips again.

I hadn't seen the thread but sounds to me like perhaps you didn't
actually reset it before trying to turn it back on...most (all?) require
a manual "push _fully_ off" to reset after a trip; if you don't they're
not reset.

I'm guessing this time your movement did include enough in the "off"
direction to do the reset.

Easy enough to test...

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