How is this a “safety” feature?
Just need to rant really. Twice in the past week I’ve returned home from work, turned on the hall lights and been plunged into darkness because a light bulb has blown. This then requires me to reset the lighting breaker in the circuit box.
Fortunately the circuit box is not far from the front door but either way the only way I can get enough light to find the right breaker is to prop the front door open and the utility room door, open the circuit box and reset the breaker. Sounds easy but both the front door and utility door have self closing mechanisms so neither wants to stay open for long.
You’d sort of hope that the utility room light would be on a separate circuit, especially given the switch built into the door frame so it comes on when the door is opened.
While I can understand that the breaker goes to protect the electrics and anyone shoving a fork in a socket I fail to see how plunging me into darkness, leaving me to fumble around is a “safety” feature. We have lights so we can operate in the dark, so we don’t stand on, walk into, trip over or otherwise collide with other objects which might do us harm.
