An older couple taking a look at their circuit breaker box - Coldsnowstorm/Getty Images Circuit breakers can be frustrating. You're happily bopping through your day, perhaps craving an English Muffin, ...

Every winter, you ask more of your outlets and extension cords than at any other time of year, piling on space heaters, ...

When the lights finally flick back on after an outage, what you do in the next few minutes can decide whether your home stays ...

Churning with voltage and resembling an explosion at the wire factory, the breaker panel exudes mystique. But it's just a big switch, filled with other smaller ­switches, which lead to the switches ...