Circuit Breaker

Forum discussion tagged with Circuit Breaker.
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    Question PC tripped circuit breaker, sparked when plugged back in. Is there any way to save it?

    My PC has been running completely fine for the last year until it tripped a circuit breaker tonight and now I think I bricked it. I have been playing the Spiderman game all week without any issues until I started to smell a burning smell tonight. Less than a minute later the circuit breaker...
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    Question Turning on power supply switch, trips the circuit

    I was using my PC for and was just surfing the web when suddenly my room’s circuit broke and my entire room went dark. After turning the breaker on and off. I tried turning the pc on again after half an hour. This time the moment I flipped the power supply switch, the circuit tripped again. I...
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    External circuit breaker to generator

    I have a Duracell PowerSource 660 all-electric generator that supports daisy-chaining batteries to it. I am going to connect a 12V 55Ah SLA battery (like a car battery) to it and I read adding a single circuit breaker to the connection between the generator and external battery could help with...
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    Question Installed a new cooler recently

    After the installation going fine I attempted to start the pc, when I did the breaker tripped and I heard a loud pop and smelled something burning within the pc. Everything inside seemed fine but when I attempted to turn it on again with a separate outlet I got nothing from the computer. After...
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    Question Circuit breaker flipped and fried my PSU?

    So I installed a Corsair H100i platinum, after the installation, I plugged the computer in heard a loud pop and smelt smoke, the breaker tripped in the outlet I plugged it into. I know the pop was a capacitor in the PSU because I tested the PSU after and it was dead. To get to the point I’m...