DisneyParrothead
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The lights in one of my ceiling fans kept going off right after I switched them on, and I couldn’t figure it out. The electrician came and found out I was using lights with too high a power. Oops!
DH is an electrician, so I get to hear all the fun stories for service calls where he literally changes a light bulb or re-sets a Gfi on an outlet.
Breakers can and do go bad over time, so if it becomes an ongoing issue, that could be a relatively simple fix.
My treadmill specifically says to NOT use a GFI outlet or breaker because the surges in how much power it draws use can cause it to trip.
That being said, sometimes stuff trips for no apparent reason, like our microwave yesterday.