Just realized everyone swears by that new smart breaker, but mine fried a control board after a single voltage spike in a storm last Tuesday.

Now I'm back to the old reliable standard model and wondering if anyone else has seen these fail under real grid instability.

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jenny471mo ago

Maybe it's just me but those fancy breakers seem built for perfect lab conditions. My neighbor had a similar meltdown during a brownout last month. Sometimes the old dumb stuff just handles real world chaos better.

tessa_murray1mo ago

Our local utility had a bad transformer blow last spring that sent wild spikes down the line. My smart breaker from that same brand handled it and logged the event. It seems like there might be some quality control issues with certain production batches.

wade8711mo ago

My uncle in Florida has used that brand for two years through hurricane season without a single trip. A fried board is rough, but @tessa_murray's point about some units logging the spike makes me wonder if it's just a bad batch getting all the attention. For every one that fails, there are probably a hundred that just click off and back on like they should. Grid issues are so random that it's hard to blame the device every time.