Circuit Breaker Keeps Tripping With Nothing Plugged In. Fox family heating and air conditioning. When a circuit breaker trips, then you have to go outside or down the basement, wherever the circuit breaker is located, and get the power back on again. Try unplugging everything from that circuit, then plug.
Start by checking all connections in the boxes as well as the lights.
An overloaded circuit is the most common reason for a circuit breaker tripping. An overload, a short circuit or a ground fault could be the culprit. If circuit breakers trip, it a breaker's thermal tripping mechanism trips the circuit breaker when its rated current is exceeded for a predetermined period of time. Unless your building or home has had the electricity completely cut off from it, there is always some amount of load on your breaker. To test for circuit overload, the next time the breaker trips, go to the electrical panel and turn off all the switches in the affected area and unplug all appliances when you plug in or turn on an appliance that has a short in its wiring, it will immediately trip the circuit—whether or not anything else is running. Hello chevell, sounds like u have eather a bad breaker or an intermintent short. The problem is that with nothing plugged in, the circuit breaker keeps tripping. On saturday night about 1am (give or take a couple of hours) our rcd tripped, if we turn the socket breaker off then the main rcd will stay on, (lights kitchen etc) we have unplugged all appliances taken out all the fuses from spurs (to our knowledge) and it still trips when nothing is plugged in
