Andy Rhody
10th October 2017, 21:41
We've had 6.8 Kw of solar on our garage roof since 2013 which does 87% of our bill annually running problem free but in July started blowing a circuit breaker between 10AM and 2PM every day. I'd reset the breaker and in a little while it would blow again and my wonderful Power One inverter 5 year warranty had just run out the month before. It was less than 4 years old but the Power One warrantes start the day they are manufactured and they sit around a while in the warehouses. I got burned on my wind inverter too.
Anyway with work and family issues I've had no time to address it and wasn't sure what to do. I did notice that right after the breaker would blow it would be warm and none of my other breakers in the chain would get warm so just for fun I replaced it for 15 bucks and everything seems to be running fine for a week. I hope that was all it was.
Has anyone ever hear of a circuit breaker going bad?
Here's the diagram.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/andy47bottles/Solar%20Bad%20Breaker._zpsyod9onoh.jpg (http://s41.photobucket.com/user/andy47bottles/media/Solar%20Bad%20Breaker._zpsyod9onoh.jpg.html)
Anyway with work and family issues I've had no time to address it and wasn't sure what to do. I did notice that right after the breaker would blow it would be warm and none of my other breakers in the chain would get warm so just for fun I replaced it for 15 bucks and everything seems to be running fine for a week. I hope that was all it was.
Has anyone ever hear of a circuit breaker going bad?
Here's the diagram.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/andy47bottles/Solar%20Bad%20Breaker._zpsyod9onoh.jpg (http://s41.photobucket.com/user/andy47bottles/media/Solar%20Bad%20Breaker._zpsyod9onoh.jpg.html)