Hey everyone. I have a puzzling question (for me anyhow).
This evening, I was going to do a good deed and vacuum the house. I went to turn on the 'central vac' and the GFCI in the kitchen popped.
I went to reset the GFCI and it would not reset.
Checked the breakers. All okay.
Went to Home Depot, got a new GFCI (And a spare).
Went home. Installed it. Still won't reset.
???
Started playing with the breakers. I took two breakers and switched places with them. Then I was able to reset GFCI and that circuit worked.
Switched them back, not working.
So, it appears that one of the two 50AMP sides on the breaker panel wasn't getting juice.
My limited electrical experience had me thinking for about an hour, and I finally concluded that I must have a bad 50A breaker.
So, went outside, turned off park power and unhooked/hooked back up all connections.
Turned power back on, and now everything works like it should.
What the?!?
I guess my question is this: WHen I blew the GFCI, could it have done something with the 12V/120V system(s) that caused the malfunction until I turned off power completely and it reset?
Do you have to unhook 120V and stay unhooked to reset anything on board?
I am not familiar with the 12V/120V thing.
And this is baffling to me.
Any ideas?
Does any of this even make sense?