I assume that cord hanger was a joke. It will be a flash bang when they plug it in.
I agree about resetting breakers with bolted faults. I had one here after the flood, a 20, that tripped the 150a feeder breaker when I reset it. It turned out to be a bolted fault in a raceway under a concrete floor. It was in RNC and welded itself inside the raceway. I had a real hard time getting it out. I had disconnected that one outlet drop from the circuit and it was dry when I finally got the wire out a month or two later. (it was full of salt water in the flood) I never used it anyway. It was just there to satisfy 210.52(A) (1) & (2). A while later I pulled in a new set of THHN/THWN and it seems OK.
Now I have a highly intermittent trip of a breaker outside that has me somewhat baffled. I am just isolating legs of the circuit at this point. Since it is so intermittent, I am going slow hooking things back up. I think I have it isolated to a single motion detectors with a string of festoon lights on it and 2 post mounted sconces (26 11w incandescent bulbs). It is a L/N fault since the GFCI is not tripping and the GFCI tests OK. The 20a circuit is cruising at less than an amp and that circuit adds a little over 2 more when the lights are on. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to when the breaker trips but it has been days since it did with that circuit offline. I am really going slow because I don't want to lose track of what the bad loop is. The only thing that makes sense right now is I have a fault in one of the all plastic sconces or something in the festoon string. Next step is to open the FS box where all that comes together, on the load side of the motion detector and see what happens when I start splitting that up. I will open up those sconces too. This is just so intermittent I don't want to miss something by getting in a hurry. Since I have isolated to something out in the yard I am not as worried about burning the house down
