watching tv one night and the tv went out and the kitchen microwave went out. 2 bedroom power went out. checked the circuit breaker box and there no smell of burned wires. there is power in like half the house. it ts a 2004 modular home. it has a cutler-hammer cb bw 10 k 200 amp 2 pole. what could the problem be.
Is it a double wide? If so, is there power in like the south half but not the north? That might indicate bad connections between the two halves. Have you tried turning all of the breakers off then back on again? Are there circuit breakers upstream of the house? Shut those off and on a couple times if so. What about the wiring from the source to the house? It might show up as a lack of power to the left hand side breakers but not the right. Or vice versa.
Lots of ways a breaker can trip without burned wires. Just an overload.
Just reset it and don't worry about it.
If it lost a phase there should be no 240, if there's an oven or a dryer the OP could check that.
If it's random outlets, could be a GFCI upstream somewhere. That doesn't seem as likely if it affects the bedroom but who knows how this place is wired? I've seen random outlets not working when the problem was a GFCI in a bathroom that fed them.
On 6/10/23 8:50 AM, TimR wrote: it ts a 2004 modular home.
How are connections made between the individual "modules"?
If all the power is off in one (or more) modules, those connections are where I'd be looking first.
No one has mentioned the neutral (white) wire yet. It's at least possible a connection in one of those is loose.
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