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Re: 2014 Los Angeles Regional

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Originally Posted by Peter Johnson View Post
If anyone's curious about why we stopped moving in F2--it was due to a bad 120A breaker (tripped completely off without significant current flow). The same thing happened in Q109, we thought due to a hard hit causing an unintended manual breaker shutoff, but after it happened again in F2 we replaced the breaker (thank you FIRST spare parts desk!). We plan to do some testing of the old breaker back in our lab to confirm it was indeed the root cause.
Glad you pulled it out. It was a close call on choosing you at IER.

We've had a similar problem, and a mentor on Citrus Circuits has written up several solutions. He should be posting it this week.