While the fault remains the breaker would remain 'tripped' so you would lose
power to all the circuits fed by that breaker. The act of breaking the
circuit would prevent any further damage in that circuit. You wouldn't know
it had tripped unless you had some means of monitoring it. The power would
only be restored if the short or whatever was removed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean T. Lake" <dtlake@erols.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Stupid fuse question
> The installation
> instructions called for an automatic resetting breaker.
> ... One thing
> that concerns me is whether you get any indication that there is a problem
> that could lead to a fried wire and therefore complete loss of the circuit
> anyway. My guess (hope) is that you would see abrupt loss and restoration
> of power.
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