And when they trip ... circuit breaker stops this overload condition by opening the circuit. A short circuit happens when a hot wire comes in contact with another hot wire, or the neutral or ...

The electricity coming into your home starts out at the transformer ... the breaker tripped. Putting 24 amps on a 20-amp circuit caused an overload. Overloads don’t necessarily trip right ...

One purpose of the grounding system is to cause a breaker in the breaker panel to trip if there ... panel’s case to the neutral bar and neutral wire back to the transformer.