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    Dec 6, 2013, 05:13 PM
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    I have a breaker that keeps blowing I traced the wire and unhooked it from the junction box everything else is working in junction box now but if I hook wire back in to it it will blow breaker again how do I find what is causing it to blow on this wire
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    Dec 6, 2013, 06:42 PM
    everything else is working in junction box
    What does that mean. If you remove the power in cable from a junction box everything left in the box should then be dead.
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    Dec 6, 2013, 11:11 PM
    You have a short after the junction box. If you know the breaker hot is OK, disconnect all the wires in the j box and start connecting each pair to the hot lead. One of the sets will trip the breaker assuming there is more than 1 pair.
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