Loose wiring connections......
have a tendency to overheat. While in Destin in May my wife plugged an electric skillet into the ground fault breaker on the side of the counter in the center of the room in our 3295RK. It kicked the breaker and I smelled a strange burnt smell. I unplugged the electric skillet and reset the breaker and she finished cooking breakfast on the stove. I continued to smell the odor all day and it was coming from the ground fault breaker. I went to Home Depot the next morning and brought a new breaker. After cutting off the power and removing the screws that held the faceplate and breaker in place, I checked the connections. I found the screws that fasten the wires down were loose. The insulation was melted back about 1/2 inch on the wire which was the most loose. I cut it back a little and stripped back the bad insulation and installed the new breaker and made sure all the connections were very tight. The interesting thing I have found is that breaker feeds more things than you might expect. It feeds all the receptacles in the kitchen, the 110 light between the fridge and stove, as well as the fridge. I also pulled the ground fault breaker in the bedroom beside the sink and found those connections to be just a little loose. It would probably be a good idea to check these screws in these receptacles once a year or so as many electrical fires are caised by loose connections.
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