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Circuit Breaker Keeps Tripping?

I have just bought a 1966 mobile home. It is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath with 2 breakers, 1 in each bedroom. There has been some remodeling done, new bathroom lights put into ceiling, in living room overhead light, in kitchen it has a double oven built in. The 1 circuit breaker runs the bedroom, kitchen, dining room (both kinda like one room), the 2nd circuit breaker runs the other bedroom, bathroom, laundry room, living room, and front porch light. There are also 3 air conditioners, 1 big old one in the bedroom of the 2nd circuit breaker, 1 newer small one in the living room, and 1 big one in the dining room. The circuit breaker in the bedroom that runs kitchen etc. seems to work fine, but the other one that runs the living room etc. keeps shutting off. It seems like if the big old air conditioner is on and all lights are on it shuts off within maybe 10 minutes. I think it's longer if the old air conditioner is off. There is nothing plugged in except air conditioners and overhead lights and stove, no refrigerator. Just don't know if it's the air conditioners or something within the remodeling.

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August 17, 20150 found this helpful

I would strongly urge you to get an electrician to look into this.

At first, it sounds as though the circuit is overloaded and the living room breaker is tripping on thermal overload. ( a 20 amp breaker allows 25 amps to flow for a period of time while its internals warm up and eventually trip the breaker on overload) If the breaker is being overloaded by the a/c, shutting the a/c and breaker off for 1/2 hour will allow the breaker to cool. Turning breaker back on without the a/c will then determine if the a/c is tripping the breaker.

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You also commented about the remodel of your 1966 mobile home. At some point in history it was not uncommon to use aluminum wire in mobile home construction. This was fine, but care had to be taken that all termination points of the wire could accept aluminum. Aluminum shrinks and grows more than copper with temperature change and the terminals where it lands need to be rated for aluminum. If wired incorrectly, this could cause hot spots.

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