Home Circuit Breaker

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Now I'm going to talk a little bit about the circuit breaker in your home. Just for safety reasons, of course, don't mess with this box if you're afraid to touch anything. It's pretty safe to actually touch when something shorts or whatnot, but if there's any exposed wires or there's something actually majorly wrong, of course call yourself an electrician to come in and fix it for you. But let's just say that anything has happened in your house. Your oven's not working, your washer's not working, your fridge isn't working, your electronics, your T.V. doesn't seem to be working -before determining that your unit itself is wrong, go ahead and go over to your circuit box. If there's been a bad storm or if there is a problem with your actual electronics, something can cause these circuits to short. So all these on here right now, these are basically all just fuses. What they do is in the event of an overdraw of power, they will actually flip off, and what this will do is it will prevent shock. So let's say, actually, you were curling your hair, and you accidentally dropped the curling iron into, for instance, your sink. So what this will do, of course so you don't get electrocuted, is it will actually flip this off to avoid full electrocution, and, as I mentioned, it'll actually flip the switch completely off. So this is in the off position right now. Go ahead and look at your box and make sure everything is pointed in the actual right direction. These are actually labeled 'On' and then of course 'Off' for the ones that are off. In the event it is flipped what you want to do is you just go ahead and flip it back over. This will actually put the power back onto whatever circuit in your house it is. A lot of times they are labeled on the side of your door like I have here. The one that I keep flipping on and off is my washer. So you'll just go ahead and look through. If you see something that's in a bedroom, or if, like I said, if it is something that's in your kitchen, your washer or whatnot, it'll have it's own circuit, your water heater, things like that. So you want to flip your switch back, and this will apply power back to that area. If you are using something, like I said, a curling iron, whatnot, and you did drop it in there, of course make sure it's unplugged and taken out before you flip this back over. In the event you flip it and it keeps flipping back, there is something wrong with that circuit, and in that event, you want to call yourself an electrician to come out and check it out, make sure that there's nothing majorly wrong. Of course that may cause a fire or do damage to you or your home. So this is your basic circuit breaker, and that's pretty much it.

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