Video: Proper Technique for Resetting a Circuit Breaker

AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: Resetting a tripped circuit breaker can be surprisingly tricky. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn the proper technique.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: Today I wanted to show you how to reset a simple circuit breaker when it’s tripped. A lot of times it’s not completely off or not completely on, and a lot of times, especially the old circuit breaker, sometimes it’s in between and you won’t even see it, but the only thing you see is that you don’t have power someplace, no lights or something is not going on in your house. So, you have to go to the panel, you make sure that circuit is completely off, and wait a few seconds. And to turn it back on, you have to hit it really hard. You have to hear it and you have to give it a good jolt, and that should restore the power to your house, to the light or plug or something. That should do it, because to reset it, you cannot do it softly, you have to do it really hard from an off position and you have to wait a few seconds. If not, it’s never going to turn on, and looks like it’s broken. But a lot of times it’s not; it actually has to be hit really hard to restore the power.

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