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/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Anonymous Sun Aug 16 19:59:30 2015 No.860328 [Reply] [Original]

>circuit keeps flipping off randomly
>go around apartment, testing the appropriate outlets
>everything seems to be working fine
>can't figure out what's wrong
>get electrical tape
>tape circuit switch to the "on" position

this is going to bite me in the ass, isn't it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:03:35 2015 No.860331 Did you conclude running your tv,Xbox,battlestations and your microwave all at the same time could be the problem?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:14:54 2015 No.860336 Enjoy your house fire.

Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:24:20 2015 No.860345

Not an electrician here, but not as dumb as you either. Add up the amperage of all the loads(things plugged in) on the circuit that is tripping. Is it more than the breaker rating? Your problem might be more serious but this is where I would start. Don't fucking tape that shit. Also could be a shitty breaker, but prob not.

Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:25:41 2015 No.860346

>>860328
Yeah, circuit breakers aren't meant to make your life hell. If you run too much current through wires, they overheat and can become fire hazards inside your walls. Circuit breakers are designed to be the weakest part of the circuit so they fail before you light your house on fire.

Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:38:00 2015 No.860351

Most circuit breakers will trip even with tape holding it down, the little tab you have to flip back and forth isn't engaged when it trips. So you may as well take the tape off because it's not doing anything

If your breaker is shitty and the tape is keeping it from tripping you need to take it off right fucking now because your house is going to burn down, not kidding.

Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:45:39 2015 No.860354

What happens just before the breaker trips? Electric range turns on? Vacuum plugs in? Lights flicker? Nothing? If it trips at RANDOM without adding load to it, try swapping the breaker with another one of the same rating. Don't upsize - ever. A new 15 or 20A breaker is like $3 at Home Depot and the old one might just be worn out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 20:45:57 2015 No.860355 >>860328 If you aren't exceeding the max amperage of the circuit, the breaker might just be bad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 16 23:06:32 2015 No.860455 yeah the tape didn't work, it just flipped off anyway it's probably moisture from the people upstairs letting water soak into the floor

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 00:00:44 2015 No.860508
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>>860455
What the fuck is wrong with you. You should read some fucking Darwin Awards. You are that fucking stupid. You are going to die young because you do dumb things.

Do you know what would have happened if the tape actually worked? Your home would be on fire. And your upstair neighbor's. Your home WOULD DEFINITELY BE ON FIRE. YOU ARE FUCKING DUMB.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 00:41:17 2015 No.860559 >>860328 >>get electrical tape >>tape circuit switch to the "on" position I don't understand why this didn't work. You used electrical tape...

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 00:52:45 2015 No.860563 >>860455 just hotwire across the circuit, you'll be fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 14:59:34 2015 No.860828 OP here thanks for the advice guys I've narrowed down the problem to wiring in the ceiling since that's where the smell of burning plastic is coming from

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 15:03:54 2015 No.860829 >>860828 I would call the fire department if I were you. Burning plastic smell coming from your ceiling is not good. You could have a wall fire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 15:15:41 2015 No.860833 >>860508 >Implying fire is bad Don't listen to the water shill over here, fire is fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 15:47:45 2015 No.860842 >>860559 I enjoyed this post

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 17:22:19 2015 No.860876 >OP is still alive

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 17:31:50 2015 No.860880 >>860876 >>860828 >smell of burning plastic Barely

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:15:49 2015 No.860892

If this isn't a troll thread you need to get an electrician out there asap. I find it hard to believe someone is that ignorant, but the stupidity of some people always continues to amaze me. Luckily for you the breakers will still internally trip. I would offer you advice on how to track down the short, but I sincerely don't think you are smart enough to trace the circuit out and break apart joints.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:29:27 2015 No.860945 >>860829 >I would call the fire department if I were you. no can do, i have bad social anxiety >>860892 >electrician too expensive this is /diy/ not /$$$/

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:32:54 2015 No.860948 >>860945 Complain to your landlord.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:35:22 2015 No.860949 >>860945 >this is /diy/ not /$$$/ Invalid point since it's pretty obvious you have no fucking clue what you're doing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 00:10:48 2015 No.861068 >>860945 This is a fire hazard and should be corrected immediately. Your neighbors and you are all going to die in a house fire because you're scared of talking to people. Your landlord will have to pay for any maintenance.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 00:38:45 2015 No.861080 Holy shit this is the stupidest thread I've ever come across. OP quit being a fucking moron.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 04:47:39 2015 No.861150 >>860328 Dont listen to the fuckwits here OP. Its fine. I even take the smoke detector batteries our of my household ones. Who fucking needs them. Jesus gave me a nose for a reason.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 04:48:56 2015 No.861152 File: 86 KB, 960x810, 1438124291108.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>861150 Forgot Pic... Some handy replacements if you ever need them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 04:59:02 2015 No.861156 File: 2.22 MB, 3072x4176, 1437422682110.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>861152 Also this is a great DIY soldering iron, connect it to line/mains power for extra wattage and a more enjoyable soldering experience

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 06:33:17 2015 No.861167 >>861156 If someone has that sort of stuff hanging around to make a diy solderer, they should have a proper soldering iron.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 07:55:01 2015 No.861178 >>861152 Probably in hopes you might smell your idiocy.Cause, clearly thinking isn't working out too well for you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 17:12:52 2015 No.861387 >>860328 >tape circuit switch to the "on" position What is a 'trip free' breaker mechanism?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 20 02:22:14 2015 No.862228 File: 162 KB, 840x1024, 840px-Theodore_Roosevelt_laughing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I gotta say, this thread made me glade i checked out /diy/ for the first time. Never change 4chins.

Anonymous Sat Aug 22 12:05:00 2015 No.863526

>>860328
>apartment

Call the manager. This is not your problem to fix. Furthermore, in many jurisdictions, there are restrictions on DIY wiring in multiple occupancy buildings. You can go ahead and burn your own house down. Not so much a dozen other tenants or condo owners.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 22 12:51:49 2015 No.863542 >>860328 Landlords buddy's taped into your stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 22 20:51:15 2015 No.863703 >>860328 lol taping it in the on position won't do shit. it will still trip, regardless of tape. check for possible shorts or you're running too much at one time.

>>	Dave Mon Aug 24 01:06:19 2015 No.864305 >>860828 They put magic smoke in all electrical devices. Once the magic smoke is let out it is no good anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 24 02:36:08 2015 No.864326 >>860945 >I would call the fire department if I were you. >no can do, i have bad social anxiety Natural selection at work folks

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 24 08:45:52 2015 No.864384 >>860331 this

Anonymous Wed Aug 26 14:06:57 2015 No.865515

>>860328

The more times your breakers flip the more worn out they get, try replacing it with a new one. If it still keeps flipping with a new one and you are not overloading the breaker you must have a earth leak somewhere, which means some loose cable is letting just enough current out to convince the breaker somebody is getting electrocuted.
I had this problem with an old computer monitor, I got a new monitor and it stopped.
Taping it down is pretty fucking dumb, almost as dumb as the guy who used a rifle bullet as a circuit breaker on his pickup truck which then heated up and shot him in the balls.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 14:49:42 2015 No.865533 >>860945 >>I would call the fire department if I were you. >no can do, i have bad social anxiety This is the dumbest shit I've heard on /diy/

Anonymous Fri Aug 28 12:07:18 2015 No.866619

>>860945
>this is /diy/ not /$$$/

But you clearly cannot Do It Yourself or you'd know better than to try to tape up a circuit breaker. when you have something to Do and you can't Do It Yourself then you have to Get Someone Else To Do It, and they usually expect money.

I don't expect you to survive long enough to reply to this post.

Anonymous Sun Aug 30 17:59:20 2015 No.867821

I attended a customer's premises a few months ago. The HMI kept losing power and wiping it's OS (I was able to salvage the program though). Posted off a new HMI, loaded with the salvaged program...
Everything seemed fine. Until the customer complained the fault was back. HMI OS was gone, just the program surviving (OS and program memory were both flash, but on separate chips).
Went out to the site, asked the guy what was happening EXACTLY. He told us the procedure for starting the machine, then demonstrated.
We discovered that the HMI had never originally been faulty. They fucked it. And the new one.
They usually start the machine by flipping one of the MCB's (An industrial RCD essentially, even looks much the same) off and on manually a few dozen times a minute. Why? Because that's how they get the weigh scale to work. They never realized that by flipping the power 20 or 30 times to force life out of a faulty sensor was what was destroying the rest of the electronics!
We replaced the damn MCB (and re-flashed the HMI OS - they were lucky that this was a brand new one and survived the first cooking) and told them to stop being so fucking stupid.

tl:dr - Don't fuck with your safety mechanisms. At the least it could cost your company £30k a week in downtime, worst, your house burns down and you die.

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