All day yesterday and last night we had up and down power failures here in Laconia off Parade Rd.
They were never long enough to require the generator but I proactively flipped the breakers on a few items that have fancy electronics in them.
There was a weird occurrence as well.
At one point about half of our stuff quit but all else was working.
I figured it was due to the loss of one leg of the incoming power and that the outage items were on that leg in the breaker panel.
We contacted Eversource but they said there were no know outages in my area.
Down the street there was a crew working on a power poll that was snapped in half so I figured it was work in progress.
But a quick glance at the panel revealed that all of the breakers with white buttons were tripped.
I reset them and we were back in action.
My experience with this type of breaker is that they are a ground fault interrupter.
Maybe the up and down or the power crew's work tripped them.
I was also wondering if they were arc fault breakers.
The house was built in 2010 and I do not know if arc faults were required then.
Do they have a button or do they just trip like a traditional breaker?
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