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Why would changing the light fixtures and the wire strippers on the black barely touched the ground wire and the lights and the fan went off but it didn't fry the breaker or the switches?
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∙ 14y ago
First of all you should turn off the power before replacing a light fixture. You didn't say if the breaker tripped or not. You created a a temporary short circuit between the Black "Hot" wire and ground. It takes a finite amount of time for breaker to trip when it senses an over-current situation. It is not possible to tell from your description what happened definitively, but either the duration of the short was very small or the resistance to ground was high due to the way the stripper made the cross-connection.
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