Problem w/Circuit Breaker on Door Panel of Forced Air System

cmsan · 2008-11-17T19:33:09+00:00

Hello all. I broke the forced air system, while simply removing the front panel to replace the air filter! I can see exactly where the problem is occurring though and it's right on the silly front panel frame!The problem is a circuit breaker (says Carlingswitch 0534 10A) that is mounted to the inside front panel frame (an area where the removed panel screws *onto*). This is an odd breaker, though I'm no expert on them, but looks weird b/c has grease that's been I'd gather manually applied, and the fuse part is exposed and the first I ever noticed this thing, it has a "tongue" of metal which does *not* look like it broke off due to normal circuit breaker tripping, no breakage marks but just looks like it fell out of where it's supposed to be. If I take this tongue of metal and push w/plastic so it touches two contacts I can see, the system comes back on. But there's nothing I can figure out to keep it touching the contacts and it jiggles off with any slight jarring.Before this problem occurred I banged on the front panel a bit with a hammer to get it to seat properly and shift down a bit and I'm thinking this jarred this little tongue out of whatever proper position it was in.Weird question and a weird circuit breaker. I'd prefer not to spend alot on an electrician just to deal with this simple thing.Anyone help? If noone wants to help can anyone explain the purpose of an odd circuit breaker mounted to the door frame like this?

Nov 17, 2008 22 Replies

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cmsan 17 years ago

Agree. There's a simple on/off switch next to the furnace that shuts power off which I was using as well, so I think this would be pretty easy to do safely. The only issue would be how easy to get the two wires off which lead into the button and then get them back on the new switch. Do you think that would be at worst a quick stripping operation or something even simpler than that?

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Stormin Mormon 17 years ago

I wish to nominate the OP for the ignorant of the week award.

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Stormin Mormon 17 years ago

Simpler.

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