Can A Bad Breaker Cause Low Voltage

A friend suggested a current surge through the wires but my assumption is if there was a current surge the breaker would have tripped or burnt out instead of having a low voltage reading of 102v 105v.

Can a bad breaker cause low voltage.

Viewed 42k times 5. All wiring is copper. The entire house seemed to be suffering from low voltage despite the electrical wires outside being totally intact. Could it just be the breaker i replaced two months ago was also a bad breaker.

One of my friends suggested that a bad breaker could be the cause but is this really a possibility. The issue we re having is an intermittent voltage drop on the outlets in the bathrooms. So i got everything the. If we turn the breaker off on again we can use a voltmeter to find 118 volts in all of the bathroom outlets.

Active 2 years 9 months ago. One reason an outlet may have low voltage is that it is worn out. I m doing some rewiring work in the kitchen. Getting any type of electrical equipment seemed to be a big issue.

Electrical outlets can wear out the same as any appliance or electrical device. Low voltage from circuit bad breaker. The process explained below will help to identify the location of the faulty wire or a connection is causing the low voltage condition. The lights started to dim.

Low voltage in an outlet can occur for a number of reasons and those reasons usually can be divided into two categories. The breaker in the box is a gfci with a white square button in addition to the on off breaker switch. A low voltage condition such as this is may be caused by a fault with the neutral wire.