Re: IIc keeps tripping the circuit breaker

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

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> Hi Tom,
>
> If the capacitor has gone bad, won't it take out the fuse first,
> before tripping the breaker?
>

Of course, the fuse should blow first. Silly me. Unless your circuit breaker
is bad and blowing at a lower current draw than it should be.

There may be a line filter or an MOV across the AC lines before the fuse.
MOV's are those big (approx. quarter-sized) red or black disks found near
the AC power input. One failure mode of an MOV is to get leaky over time,
and the breaker is maybe popping before the MOV smokes itself? You could
test this easily enough by temporarily removing any MOV you see.

Tom Zuchowski