Main circuit breaker causing me problems

With the main off operate every breaker on off on off a couple of times. Leave off now turn on the main and turn on every breaker one at a time.

Hard to tell from here

There is a problem with the Main breaker. In simple terms: the Main has 2 separate sections; each serves (roughly) half the rooms/circuits.

My advice: Do NOT touch it or attempt to turn it On or Off again. Call the utility and see if they can assist. Not all of them will, but some try to be very helpful.

Jim

Thanks for the response. I tried doing that and it didn't do anything.

I have another question. Why is there a main circuit breaker in the garage and a main one in the basement with all of the little circuit breakers? Is there any relevence in the fact that me screwing with the one in the garage messed everything up?

Sometimes an older circuit breaker will not reset both poles. I've had this happen to me, particularly with Federal circuit breakers. Try turning the main off and then on again and see if that corrects the problem. If not then you may have a bad main breaker that needs replacing.

It's also possible that you may have a loose connection to the breaker and by disturbing it you caused the connection to break altogether.

If you're not comfortable working around live circuits, you should call a pro.

What kind of problems are you having with your washer and dryer.?

John Grabowski