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Siemens 2 single pole 15 amp breaker Questions & Answers
20 amp AFCI
The breaker has gone bad . You no longer have arc fault protection .
Is there a recall on
Hi. I'm a Siemens employee directly involved in helping customers with this situation. You may check the following website for information on the breakers affected. Please use the response form there if you need further assistance:
www.usa.siemens.com/pluginrecall
Also, you may check with your local distributors for assistance with replacements. They have quarantined the affected breakers and should be able to sell existing unaffected stock.
https://www.sea.siemens.com/us/Sales/Pages/Distributor-Locator.aspx
Enter your zip code and choose Residential Products or Murray depending on the branding of your circuit breaker.
I have 2 siemens circuit breakers that won't reset. How can I do
unplug the appliance that is overloading the breaker.
reset the breaker, plug in the appliance. if the breakers pops, then the appliance is the problem.
you may want to check the appliace manual and make sure the breaker is rated for the appliance you are using.
I need to strap two single pole breakers together to make 2 pole.
this is a double pole circuit breaker that is used for a 240 volt device the bar in the middle is to shut down at the same time you can take it to a hardware store to replace it but the bar is factory made siemens is one common breaker or there might be a substute they can give you also
Siemens QF230A keeps tripping after installation.
So likely you have a 3 wire dryer cord and a 3 wire branch circuit. The dryer neutral is bonded to the dryer frame and the third wire of the dryer plug.
There were code exceptions for dryers and stoves that allowed timer motor circuits to use the neutral as a current carrier and frame ground.
To use the GFCI for the dryer you will be required to add an additional conductor (new 3 wire+ground cable) and separate the neutral to frame bond in the dryer and use a 4 wire dryer cord.
Likely you also have some GFCI single pole breakers and replaced ungrounded receptacles with grounded (another code exception) and they work OK. The dryer and stove are different as there is current on the third wire where as on the ungrounded receptacle GFCI there is no 3rd wire.
In breif, the neutral (current carrier conductor) from the dryer must be isolated from the dryer frame and dryer ground (fault current carrier conductor).
Or just leave it the way it was.
Check with local authority with jurisdiction for local code requirements.
6/25/2020 12:19:41 AM •
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on Jun 25, 2020
No electricity in all bathroom outlets
you may have agfi outlet in the circuit. the outlet has 2 push buttons in the middle. it maybe an outside outlet that is tripped some contractors hook up the circiut like that
11/25/2017 8:43:32 PM •
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on Nov 25, 2017
MY WIFE HIT HER SHOULDER
Flip each breaker all the way off and then all the way back on.. If that doesn't fix the problem, look for a tripped GFI (go around and press the reset button on any outlets that have the buttons "test" and "reset"). If that still doesn't work, you should probably contact an electrician.
9/15/2014 7:05:08 PM •
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on Sep 15, 2014
Activating shunt trip circuit on vl160n
A shunt is always energized and it has a purpose. The purpose is to bypass some of the load from the main circuit. It would be tripping due to overload
5/22/2013 11:39:43 PM •
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on May 22, 2013
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