Q: Every few hours—sometimes minutes!—my living room and one side of my kitchen lose electrical power. I’ll check the breaker panel and, sure enough, a circuit breaker has tripped…again. Should I call ...

Man looking at an open electrical panel in a home - Photoalto/eric Audras/Getty Images Imagine you're relaxing in your living room — the lights are on, the TV is streaming your current favorite show, ...

What would we do without circuit breakers? For one thing, our homes would be a lot less safe. Circuit breakers are switches that disconnect electrical circuits by interrupting the current running ...

Have you ever come across a system that has tripped its circuit breaker and thought, “Great, a nice, easy service call. I’ll just need to reset the breaker and be on my way.” Well, it rarely turns out ...

This infrared photo shows two electric cables that are much warmer than the others. Is this dangerous? (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter A few days ago, a reader named Marcus asked me an ...

Home Inspector: Why is there a lock on my circuit breaker? I recently an email from someone wanting to know why their circuit breaker has a lock on it, preventing the breaker from being turned off, or ...

Twice in a row now I’ve had my 15A breaker tripped when spinning up Horizon Zero Dawn Forbidden West at High graphics settings. I’m running a 5950X with RTX4090 in a custom waterloop, with a Seasonic ...