We just remodeled our entire kitchen in July 07 with new appliances. Our dishwasher (Fisher Paykel double drawer) has blown the circuit breaker a couple times since Thursday. The breaker is a 20 amp unit. I thought it was no big deal and just reset the breaker. It was fine till today. The breaker popped again. I went out to reset it and when I did, it (the breaker) arced big time! To eliminate the possibility of the dishwasher being the culprit, I ran an extension cord for it to another circuit. No problems there. I am suspecting a bad circuit breaker. How hard are these to replace? The panel is a 200 amp panel with the main cut off switches at the top. I am assumming that I just flip those off and the rest of the panel is dead. Right? Then its just a matter of opening up the panel and replacing the bad breaker in question. ???
I don't know why, but working with AC voltage has always scared the crap out of me.
